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DCP-LETT-899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[30 July – 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.44)
Summary:

Comments extensively on CL’s book [Travels in North America (1845)]. Lyell’s views on slavery, the clergy, education, and coalfields. Has difficulty in tracing Lyell’s course. Comments on geological portions, especially CL’s comparisons of living and fossil organisms to those of South America and Tasmania; animal formation of carbonic acid and effects of vegetable decay; Indians’ use of lumber. Discusses water-borne transportation of wood, fruit, and seeds. Notes distribution of Arctic flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2051

From:
Josiah Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 July 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.294
Summary:

Asks JH to distribute engravings of James Grahame among Grahame's friends and family. Discusses memoir of Grahame and Grahame's History of the United States.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2052

From:
Josiah Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 July 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.295
Summary:

Sends two copies of memoirs of James Grahame. More copies may be purchased with proceeds benefiting the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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