From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray; John Murray
Date:
[after 1 July 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 273
Summary:
Wants to keep "The origin of man" as first part of title of book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Wants to keep "The origin of man" as first part of title of book.
Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.