From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Oct [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.173)
Summary:
Comments on CL’s letters.
Discusses foreign animals naturalised in Australia and elsewhere.
Affirms man’s capacity to survive in Eocene climate.
Comments on American types.
Denies necessity for "continued intervention of creative power".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project