From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306)
Summary:
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project