From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.42)
Summary:
Remarks on fossils described in A. D. d’Orbigny’s Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale.
Asks CL whether he has talked with John Murray concerning 2d ed. [of Journal of researches].
Mentions conversation with Hugh Cuming about South American shells. Has had G. B. Sowerby (elder) look at some specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project