Charles Darwin
Darwin relates, “At last I have found time to correct the Origin.” He states that he has compared the text of the third English edition with the second edition which was translated into German, and has made pencil corrections. “As I am a poor German scholar,” Darwin confesses, “it would take me a long time to compare all, but it will lose you very little time.” He also discusses “enlarging the part which has been most criticized.” Darwin feels “quite doubtful” about the possibility of Mr. Swigerbart[?] translating his book on orchids. He mentions the woodcuts and the possibility of Mr. Murray printing the edition. Darwin’s writings about evolution and natural selection in his Origin of the Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) were published and widely discussed during his lifetime.
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