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To Charles Lyell 21 August [1861]
Summary
Suggests change in a passage [in MS] of CL’s [Antiquity of man (1863)] dealing with adaptations for travel.
Comments on review of Origin by F. W. Hutton [Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8].
Emphasises importance of variability for natural selection.
Discusses possiblity of intelligent causes in variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.261) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3235 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
