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To Charles Lyell 17 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses relationship between natural selection and more general laws. Law of gravity is not seen as requiring design. Mentions mathematicians’ judgment of probability.
Notes gestation periods for hounds.
Etty is somewhat better.
Mentions his paper on fertilisation of orchids by insects [Collected papers 2: 32–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 17 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.217) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2833 |
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
