From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.236)
Summary:
Sale of Origin requires new edition [3d (Apr 1861)].
Further discussion of geological elevation and subsidence in Europe. Compares evidence to that of South America. His theory that semi-fluid matter underlies earth’s crust.
Mentions David Forbes’s explanation of South American nitrate deposits.
Has followed CL’s advice not to reply directly to reviewers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project