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DCP-LETT-4752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304)
Summary:

Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.

Agrees with CL on beauty.

Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].

CD’s illness.

CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.430 & 24.83
Summary:

Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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