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DCP-LETT-4771

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
14 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.

The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.

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DCP-LETT-4775

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306)
Summary:

Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.

Also mentions account of Heer’s work

and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.

Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].

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