To Alpheus Hyatt 8 May 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
May 8th 1881
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind gift of “The Genesis &c &c”, which I shall be glad to read, as the case has always seemed to me a very curious one.—1 It is all the kinder in you to send me this book, as I am aware that you think that I have done nothing to advance the good cause of the Descent-theory.—2
Wishing you success in all your future scientific researches, I remain My dear Sir, Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bowler, Peter John. 1983. The eclipse of Darwinism. Anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades around 1900. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay. 1977. Ontogeny and phylogeny. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Hyatt, Alpheus. 1880. The genesis of the Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim. Boston: Boston Society of Natural History.
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Aware that AH thinks CD has done nothing to advance the good cause of the descent theory.
Obliged for gift of AH’s [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13151
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alpheus Hyatt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13151,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13151.xml
