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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 [June 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.216)
Summary:

Mentions letters from Edward Blyth and William Hopkins.

Sees little in review of Origin by J. A. Lowell [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].

Sees only one sentence approaching natural selection in paper by Hermann Schaaffhausen. Emphasises importance of natural selection.

Comments on Agassiz’s view of species.

Cites account of flint tools in travel book by F. P. Wrangell [Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea (1840)]. Mentions Eskimo tools.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
14 June [1860]
Source of text:
University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana)
Summary:

He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Loyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.345
Summary:

Is giving a dinner for the Hawkhurst Rifle Volunteers and would welcome JH's presence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project