From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 [June 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.214)
Summary:
Comments on review of Origin by Andrew Murray [Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91] and views of William Hopkins on Origin ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life" Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90]. The attacks will tell heavily.
Mentions Blyth’s failure to receive appointment as naturalist to China expedition of 1860.
Encloses letter from Asa Gray.
Discusses gestation period in domesticated dogs.
Comments on hybrid fertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project