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DCP-LETT-5558

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328)
Summary:

Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].

Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].

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DCP-LETT-5566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
9 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329)
Summary:

Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.

Mentions proposed visit.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32
Summary:

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].

Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.

Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.

Discusses correlation of growth.

Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].

Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.

[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]

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