From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.225)
Summary:
Discusses at length CL’s criticisms of natural selection.
Comments on possible former connection between the Galapagos and South America.
Discounts survival of mammals on atolls.
Discusses reptile origin of mammals.
Discounts development of a mammal on an island and the descent of mammals from a bird.
The antiquity of islands.
Comments on bats of New Zealand. Geographical distribution of seals. Discusses Amblyrhynchus.
Glad CL will read his MS on origin of dogs [Variation 1: 15–43].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project