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To J. D. Hooker [20? July 1860]

CD’s reaction to review of the Origin [by Samuel Wilberforce] in Quarterly Review [see 2881].

… John Lubbock , 20 July [1860]. It could possibly have been enclosed with the preceding letter, but then CD would have had little time to obtain and read the review to which he refers. The Quarterly Review in question (see n. 2, below) was published on Wednesday, 18 July 1860 ( Publisher’s Circular , 17 July 1860, p. 339). The July issue of the Quarterly Review carried an anonymous review of Origin . The author was Samuel Wilberforce , bishop of Oxford ( Wilberforce 1874 ; …

Discusses coral reefs

and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.

… 1874] and n. 2. In Coral reefs 2d ed. , pp. 223– 4, CD discussed Semper’s objections to his view, but noted that when the land was prolonged beneath the sea in an extremely steep slope, reefs formed there during subsidence would remain closely attached to the shore, and would be indistinguishable from fringing reefs. CD concluded that he was justified in continuing to consider atolls and barrier reefs to be the result of subsidence. John and Ellen Frances Lubbock …

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