To Charles Lyell 6 June [1860]
Summary
Mentions Etty’s illness.
A "coarsely contemptuous" review of Origin by Samuel Haughton ["On the form of the cells made by various wasps and by the honey bee; with an appendix on the origin of species", Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dublin 3 (1860): 128–40].
Comments on reception of Malthus’ ideas.
Says William Hopkins does not understand him.
Discusses problem of term "natural selection".
J. A. Lowell’s review of Origin [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Relationship between instinct and structure.
Discusses blindness of cave animals.
The fallacy of Andrew Murray and others; the slight importance of climate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.215) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2822 |
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Date
| 1860 | (1) |
