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To A. R. Wallace   5 July [1866]

Summary

CD considers "the survival of the fittest" as alternative term to "Natural Selection". Reflections upon misunderstanding and his own ambiguity.

Health improved; can now work "some hours daily".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 July [1866]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add 46434, f.70)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5145

From Frederick Currey   5 July 1866

Summary

Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?

Author:  Frederick Currey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 July 1866
Classmark:  DAR 161: 307
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5146

From J. T. Moggridge   5 and 6 July [1866]

Summary

Sends onion and mint seeds.

Author:  John Traherne Moggridge
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 and 6 July 1866
Classmark:  DAR 171: 209
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5147