To Williams & Norgate 3 May [1880]1
From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.
Please to send me Ray Lankester’s Lecture or Essay on Degeneration.2
C. D.
May 3d.
Footnotes
The year is established by the publication date of Edwin Ray Lankester’s essay (see n. 2, below).
Lankester’s essay Degeneration: a chapter in Darwinism had been announced in the Athenæum, 17 April 1880, p. 502; the text had first been delivered at a general meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Sheffield in August 1879 (Lankester 1880, p. 1; Report of the 49th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Sheffield (1879): lxxxvi).
Bibliography
Lankester, Edwin Ray. 1880. Degeneration. A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillian and Co.
Summary
Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12595J
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Williams & Norgate
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12595J,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 28
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