To Baden Powell 18 January [1860]
Summary
To avoid possible misundertanding of his letter [2654] of that morning, CD wishes to make clear that he did not wish to imply that BP’s essay and the Vestiges of creation were in the same class. The more he thinks of it the more difficult he feels it would be to give a fair account of the authors who have maintained the modification of species. CD finds that he referred to BP’s views in the preface to his larger work [Natural selection], which was replaced by the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Baden Powell |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2655 |
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- … letter to Charles Lyell, 21 June [1859] ). CD included Haldeman among those who had previously discussed the species question in the ‘historical sketch’ prepared as a preface for the American edition of Origin . See Appendix IV. CD refers to the manuscript on species that he wrote between 1856 and 1858 ( Natural selection ), from which Origin was largely compiled. The preface has not been preserved. The quotation is taken from Powell 1855 , p. 359. John Frederick William Herschel’s remark was printed in Babbage …
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Powell, Baden | (1) |
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| 1860 | (1) |
