To John Murray 4 April [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
Ap. 4th
My dear Sir
I enclose with many thanks the receipt for your Bills.—2
The Review in Westminster, I have not yet read: it is by Huxley.3 Prof. Pictet has published an excellent Review, though opposed to me, in the Bibliotheque Univer. of Geneva.4
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Pictet de la Rive, François Jules. 1860. Sur l’origine de l’espèce par Charles Darwin. Bibliothèque universelle. Revue suisse et étrangère n.s. 7: 233–55.
Summary
Has not yet read Huxley’s review of Origin in Westminster Review [Apr 1860].
F. J. Pictet has published an excellent review, though opposed to CD, in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève [Mar 1860].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2745
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 76)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2745,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2745.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
