From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
| Author: | Charles Pritchard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 174.2: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3607 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 17 June [1862]
Summary
Is pleased that AdeC is interested in the Primula case ["Dimorphic condition of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Is pursuing analogous experiments on other plants and on seedlings raised from the unions.
CD’s "large work" progresses slowly owing to ill health and his work on Orchids.
CD is not surprised that AdeC is unwilling to admit natural selection – "the subject hardly admits of direct proof or evidence. It will be believed in only by those who think that it connects & partly explains several large classes of facts".
Hopes AdeC will publish on Quercus
and rejoices that he intends to return to the study of geographical distribution. No one can claim to have read AdeC’s truly great work on that subject [Géographie botanique (1855)] with more care than CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 17 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3608 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
