To C. E. Ferguson 12 January 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 12/80
Dear Sir
If you will read Häckels “Evolution of Man”—if this Translation has appeared in America, or his Schöpfungsgesikter—and my Descent of Man, I think that you will find reference to everything important.—1
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent 2d US ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. New York: D. Appleton. 1875.
Haeckel, Ernst. 1880. The history of creation: or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular. Translation [by Dora Schmitz] of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, revised by E. Ray Lankester. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
Summary
Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12630
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Eugene Ferguson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12630,” accessed on 12 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12630.xml
