From Charles Kingsley 12 July 1866
Eversley Rectory, Winchfield.
July 12/66
My dear Mr. Darwin
I flee to you, as usual in ignorance & wonder.1
Have you investigated the migration of the eye in Flatfish? I have been reading a paper on it by Prof. Thompson in Nat. Hist. Mag. for May 1865.—2
I look to your methods for explaining how the miracle takes place; whether the eye passes through the scull, or round the soft parts, is a minor question.3
Will you kindly do me the honour to look at 2 lectures of mine on Science & Superstition gn at the Royal Institution, & reprinted in Frazer’s Mag. for June & July?4
I think you will find that I am not unmindful of your teaching.
I heard with extreme pleasure that your health is much improved.
Yours ever with deep respect & attachment | C Kingsley
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Malm, August Wilhelm. 1867. Bidrag till kännedom af Pleuronektoidernas utveckling och byggnad. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 7 (1867–8): (4th paper) 1–28.
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.
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.
Thomson, Charles Wyville. 1865. Notes on Prof. Steenstrup’s views on the obliquity of flounders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 15: 361–71.
Vorzimmer, Peter J. 1969–70. Darwin’s ‘Lamarckism’ and the "flat-fish controversy" (1863–71). Lychnos 12: 121–70.
Summary
Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5154
- From
- Charles Kingsley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Eversley
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 34
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5154,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5154.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14