From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
17 June [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.217)
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project