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DCP-LETT-2593

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.186)
Summary:

Comments on Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae].

Cites C. V. Naudin’s article ["Considérations philosophiques sur l’espèce et la variété", Rev. Hortic. 4th ser. 1 (1852): 102–9].

Mentions letter from William Jardine criticising discussion of the Galapagos in the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
27 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187)
Summary:

Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].

Discusses relations between fossil and living types.

Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188)
Summary:

Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.

Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.

Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].

Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.

Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.

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