Summary

Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.

Letter details

Letter no.

DCP-LETT-2625

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Unidentified

Sent from

unstated

Source of text

Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)

Physical description

AL inc

• Darwin, C. R.
• Unidentified