From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8[–9] Sept [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319)
Summary:
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project