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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 [June 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.220)
Summary:

Encloses arrow-heads.

Comments on gestation in dogs.

Mentions BAAS meeting at Oxford.

Etty’s illness.

Criticises views of J. W. Dawson on organic and geological change.

The problems of distinguishing varieties and species.

Discusses facts explained by his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
25 June [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Would like to borrow the bees that, as reported in Gardeners’ Chronicle, were sent to JOW with pollen-masses of orchids sticking to them. CD has never seen a bee visit an orchid. He believes he could identify the genus and perhaps species of the orchids the pollen comes from.

His health is too bad to attend the meeting [of British Association for the Advancement of Science].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project