To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 August [1872]
Summary
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8488 |
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- … 1872 , 1: vii). For CD’s earlier reservations about Bastian’s experiments, see Correspondence vol. 18, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 July [1870] ). Bastian claimed that simpler, more generalised forms of life could generate more complex forms rapidly through ‘heterogenesis’ at any point in time ( H. C. Bastian 1872 , …
To A. R. Wallace 20 October [1872]
Summary
Remarks about an enclosed specimen,
and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].
ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8566 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Date
| 1872 | (3) |
