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To J. D. Hooker 17 June [1860]
Summary
Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 68 (EH 88206051) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1571 |
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 |
To W. B. Carpenter 17 June [1860]
Summary
Must defer WBC’s visit, owing to daughter’s illness.
Comments on response to the Origin. Has been "well pitched into", but cares little, because of support of men like WBC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 17 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 6 (EH 88205923) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2834 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
