To Charles Lyell 25 [June 1860]
Summary
Encloses arrow-heads.
Comments on gestation in dogs.
Mentions BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Etty’s illness.
Criticises views of J. W. Dawson on organic and geological change.
The problems of distinguishing varieties and species.
Discusses facts explained by his theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.220) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2843 |
To John Obadiah Westwood 25 June [1860]
Summary
Would like to borrow the bees that, as reported in Gardeners’ Chronicle, were sent to JOW with pollen-masses of orchids sticking to them. CD has never seen a bee visit an orchid. He believes he could identify the genus and perhaps species of the orchids the pollen comes from.
His health is too bad to attend the meeting [of British Association for the Advancement of Science].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Date: | 25 June [1860] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collections) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2844 |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |