skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
1860::09::23 in date disabled_by_default
1860::09::23 in date disabled_by_default
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
1 Item
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

To Charles Lyell   23 [September 1860]

Summary

Hopes to get Asa Gray’s review of Origin republished.

Argues for single origin of mammals.

Encloses two phylogenetic diagrams indicating possible descent of mammals.

Comments on rodents, marsupials, and dingo in Australia,

and on a paper on the survival of stumps as a result of root grafting.

Argues that man had a single progenitor and consists of a single species.

Comments on destruction of non-white races.

Discusses introduction of rodents to islands by man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  23 [Sept 1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.227)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2925