From Francois Jules Pictet de la Rive1 19 February 1860
Geneva
19. Feby. 1860
Your book makes science young clear, elevated, but no facts
to prove that principle that slight modification multiplied by any factor of time no matter how long could reach the character of families &c or cd. produce profound modifics. in organization.—2
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. 1853–7. Traité de paléontologie, ou histoire naturelle des animaux fossiles considérés dans leurs rapports zoologiques et géologiques. 2d edition. 4 vols. Paris: J.-B. Baillière.
Summary
Believes Origin makes science "young, clear, elevated" but does not have the facts to prove that cumulated slight modifications could ever produce different families from common ancestors. [See 2709.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2704A
- From
- François Jules Pictet de la Rive
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Geneva
- Source of text
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 110–11)
- Physical description
- CC 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2704A,” accessed on 4 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2704A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
