From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 July [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331)
Summary:
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project