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DCP-LETT-7401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.386)
Summary:

Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].

Is correcting proofs [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7847

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 235
Summary:

Asks Lyell to put a question to CD: "To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface [the symmetrical but different curves] at the last points of the fingers and toes be traced?"

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DCP-LETT-8227F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Has been looking for something about crop rotation in Origin and Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8261

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 107–8
Summary:

Sends, for signature, a statement approving change in rules of the Leopoldino Academy [Dresden] to be forwarded to CD to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.415)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416)
Summary:

Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8)
Summary:

Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420)
Summary:

Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8552F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 327
Summary:

Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Summary:

Arranges a visit to CL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Summary:

Offers condolences on the death of CL’s wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8913

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
16 May [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.427)
Summary:

Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8956F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
28 June [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 328
Summary:

Thanks for the extract from the American paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 Sept 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432)
Summary:

Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.

Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.

Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9075F

From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6330-1)
Summary:

Returns CD’s books and discusses apples and Crags at Sudbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9077F

From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Sept 1873
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6422-3)
Summary:

Sends proofs of pages on shells with revised species names. Discusses Crag Moll, Sutton and Butley Red Grag, and Scrobicularia beds. Son asks him to thank Lyell for extract from Darwin’s book.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[13 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Summary:

The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].

Thanks for Saturday Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9426F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981)
Summary:

Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9477

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
31 May [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9619

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 , 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.

CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.

Contributor:
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