From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Apr 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 81, 205.9: 393
Summary:
Spoke to Henry Warburton, W. H. Fitton, and E. B. Greenough on CD’s idea of a Government grant for publication [not identified].
Will read at next meeting his paper on erect Nova Scotia fossil trees [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1843–5): 176–8].
E. P. Halstead reports on shores rising off Burma and Bay of Bengal.
Unpacking his U. S. fossils.
Phillips looked at beds below coal in Pennsylvania. Result is the usual different species found but with complete representation of forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project