From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 July [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.134)
Summary:
Thanks CL for loan of [Matthew Fontaine?] Maury’s map.
Discusses possibility of submerged continental extension including Madeira, Canaries, and Azores.
Mentions icebergs as carriers of European plants.
Hooker’s work on Antarctic flora.
Comments on coolness of tropics in glacial period and consequent migrations. Hooker’s views on this.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project