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To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 January [1860]
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WBC’s review [of Origin, Natl Rev. 10 (1860): 188–214] will do great good. It "turns the flanks of theological opposers" capitally.
Asks for information about cuckoo eggs and West Indian sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 6 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 4 (EH 88205921) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2641 |
To W. B. Carpenter 18 November [1859]
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Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.
"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 18 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2535 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 27 May [1855] and 14 [July 1855] ). Carpenter reviewed Origin in two publications: The National Review (January 1860) and the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (April 1860). A copy of the latter is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See also letter to W. B. Carpenter, 3 December [1859] . …