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DCP-LETT-1571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 June [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 68 (EH 88206051)
Summary:

Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2833

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].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2834

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
17 June [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 6 (EH 88205923)
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.

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