To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1860] |
Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
To Charles Lyell 14 [June 1860]
Summary
Mentions letters from Edward Blyth and William Hopkins.
Sees little in review of Origin by J. A. Lowell [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Sees only one sentence approaching natural selection in paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen. Emphasises importance of natural selection.
Comments on Agassiz’s view of species.
Cites account of flint tools in travel book by F. P. Wrangell [Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea (1840)]. Mentions Eskimo tools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.216) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832 |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |