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DCP-LETT-3426A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
31 Jan [1869?]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (pasted in Mueller 1858–82, vol. 1)
Summary:

"You are most perfectly welcome to Fragmenta [F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–64)], & I shall be delighted if they are of the slightest use to you."

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DCP-LETT-6585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
31 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.361)
Summary:

Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.

Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.

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