From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
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- … H. Huxley 1863a and 1863b. See Bentham 1863 , pp. xxv–xxvi. Bentham refers to Richard Owen’s anonymous review of William Benjamin Carpenter’s Introduction to the study of Foraminifera ( Carpenter 1862 ), and his anonymous reply to CD’s letter to the Athenæum , 18 April 1863, published in the Athenæum on 28 March 1863 and 2 May 1863, respectively (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). Owen commented favourably on the work of the French biologist Félix Archimède Pouchet ( Pouchet 1858 and 1859), …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Date
| 1863 | (1) |
