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DCP-LETT-3006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.236)
Summary:

Sale of Origin requires new edition [3d (Apr 1861)].

Further discussion of geological elevation and subsidence in Europe. Compares evidence to that of South America. His theory that semi-fluid matter underlies earth’s crust.

Mentions David Forbes’s explanation of South American nitrate deposits.

Has followed CL’s advice not to reply directly to reviewers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3007

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Silliman, Jr
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for information on cave rat.

CD is obliged for news of J. D. Dana’s recovery.

Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3008

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 78
Summary:

Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.

Drosera experiments detailed.

Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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