To George Howard Darwin 27 May [1867]
Summary
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5553 |
To G. H. Darwin [9 December 1868]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6496 |
