From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.224)
Summary:
The adultery of Lady [Harriet Spencer] Grey and Captain Keppell.
A new species of elephant discovered by Hugh Falconer.
Comments on excellent review by Asa Gray [Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860): 229–39].
Still believes dogs descended from several wild stocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project