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DCP-LETT-5582F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1867
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.

Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?

Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 July [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331)
Summary:

Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;

too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].

Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.

Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2091

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 July 1867
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 45-47
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 25]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4873

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
6 July 1867
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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