To A. R. Wallace 22 November [1870]
Summary
Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.
Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7380 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 22 November 1870
Summary
Sofya Kovalevsky not admitted to University in Berlin.
Translating the four sheets CD sent. When will book [Descent] be printed?
Alexander [Kovalevsky] has gone to the Red Sea to study corals.
Will work on live Scalpellum at Naples in spring.
Bemoans England’s Prussian sympathies. Paris will fall without bombardment.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7381 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
