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DCP-LETT-6728

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Lyell 1881, 2: 441; DAR 85: A100–1
Summary:

Recalls Cuvier’s reaction to Principles of geology.

Comments on Wallace’s article in the Quarterly Review [see 6684].

Not opposed to ARW’s idea that Supreme Will might direct variation.

Quotes passage in letter from ARW arguing for causes other than selection in determining human abilities.

Discusses excavation of lakes by glaciers.

J. P. Lesley does not believe ice-sheets involved in eroding Appalachians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6967

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1869
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.113.ff.3734–3737)
Summary:

Comments on Huxley’s address ["Geological reform", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxxviii–liii].

Physicists have ignored variation in sea-level in calculating effects.

Doubts if sun only source of heat.

Notes average depth of sea is 15 times height of land.

Criticises CD’s concept of permanent continents.

Sedimentary strata of Alleghenies must have derived from continent located where Atlantic is. Thinks enormous amount of denudation, submergence, and elevation may have accompanied relatively insignificant organic changes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE440

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 145, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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WCP1697

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 March 1869
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3961-3965
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1698

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 June 1869
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3966-3970
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1699

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3972-3976
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2217

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 February 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 97-98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2219

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 March 1869
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 101-103
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 30]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2220

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 104-110
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2221

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 March 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 111-112
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2222

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 March 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 113-128
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2223

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 March 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 129-132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5937

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Lyell, K. M. (Ed.). (1881). In: Life Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart . Vol. 2. London: John Murray. [pp. 441-444]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5994

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May] [1869]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 225]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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