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To Charles Lyell 20 [June 1860]
Summary
Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.
Comments on free-will in animals.
Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".
Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.
Discusses Arctic flora.
Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 [June 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2838 |
To H. T. Stainton 20 June [1860]
Summary
Has had a very satisfactory answer from Mr Parfitt. Asks HTS to insert query in Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer and also to answer it himself. ["Do the Tineina and other small moths suck flowers?", Collected papers 2: 35–6.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 20 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2839 |
To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [20 June 1860]
Summary
Is it physically possible for moths to eat the pollen of Mercurialis? Believes moths may visit the smaller clovers to suck the nectar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer |
| Date: | [20 June 1860] |
| Classmark: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer, 30 June 1860, p. 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2848 |
