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DCP-LETT-6023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349)
Summary:

The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".

Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".

Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.

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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.

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