From B. W. Savile 27 September 1881
Summary
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 |
From B. W. Savile 30 September 1881
Summary
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 |
To B. W. Savile [before 8 October 1881]
Summary
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bourchier Wrey Savile |
Date: | [before 8 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13366 |
From B. W. Savile 10 October 1881
Summary
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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