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DCP-LETT-6275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 July 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352)
Summary:

Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.

Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[13 July 1868]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.20 (C: RS:HS 24.220)
Summary:

On the temperatures of water in the oceans, and the freezing temperature of sea water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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