From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 [July 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.221)
Summary:
Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.
Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.
Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].
Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project