| Description | Letters to De Beer regarding his publications on Darwin:
From Peter Medawar regarding the theory that Darwin contracted Chagas Disease during his Beagle voyage;
From Desmond King-Hele and Medawar regarding De Beer's paper "How Darwin Came by his Theory of Natural Selection", New Scientist, No. 23, (Jan 1964), and King-Hele's Erasmus Darwin, (London: Macmillan, 1963);
From numerous colleagues, academics and members of the public, congratulating De Beer on the publication of Charles Darwin: A Scientific Biography, (London: Nelson, 1963);
Copies of De Beer's outgoing letters are interspersed throughout, as are press cuttings of book reviews and articles concerning the debate into the development of the theory of natural selection, and Darwin's health. |