From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.346)
Summary:
Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project