From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)
Summary:
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project