From John Gould 10 May 1866
Summary
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
| Author: | John Gould |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5086 |
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- … J. Gould 1861a is in the Darwin Library–CUL; Gould’s description and remarks are underlined (see Marginalia 1: 342–4). The question of beauty in humming-birds had recently been raised by George Douglas Campbell , the Duke of Argyll, in a series of articles critical of CD’s theory of descent by natural selection ( G. D. Campbell 1865 , pp. 230–2; see letter …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gould, John | (1) |
Date
| 1866 | (1) |
