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From B. W. Savile   10 October 1881

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Thanks CD for answering his query about evolution.

Author:  Bourchier Wrey Savile
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 177: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13385

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  • … Savile, B. W. Darwin, C. R. …
  • r .  kindness in replying to my questions, by which I am enabled to understand, better than I did before, the hypothesis of the doctrine of Evolution. I beg to remain, Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | B.  W.  Savile C.  Darwin

From B. W. Savile   30 September 1881

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Thanks CD for his reply and, in attempting to clarify his question [see 13358], asks: "how could the first mammal species be nourished, if its immediate progenitor was non-mammal?"

Author:  Bourchier Wrey Savile
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 177: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13364

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From B. W. Savile   27 September 1881

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Finds it difficult to reconcile evolution with Mosaic record, but thinks it does not necessarily involve "infidel" principles.

Asks "How life born of an egg, can evolve life born of a mammal?"

Author:  Bourchier Wrey Savile
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 177: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13358

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