From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.232)
Summary:
Encloses advertisement [for C. R. Bree, Species not transmutable (1860)].
Discusses Bronn’s chapter of criticisms.
Mentions variation in rats.
Has ordered book by Bree.
Discusses suggestion that southern corners of Australia may once have been islands.
Mentions "wild speculations" about change in earth’s axes.
CL’s ideas on variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project