From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1 Sept 1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.39)
Summary:
Asks about CL’s new book [Travels in North America (1845)].
Discusses views of A. D. d’Orbigny on elevation.
Mentions reading W. H. Prescott [History of the conquest of Mexico (1843)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project