From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.213)
Summary:
Mentions American edition of Origin.
A "savage" review [by John Duns] in North British Review [32 (1860): 455–68].
Comments on views of G. H. K. Thwaites on the survival of simple forms as a problem in his theory.
Mentions imperfection of geological record.
Marine origin of coal.
Illness of Etty.
Encloses article by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on hare–rabbit crosses [Histoire naturelle générale (1854–62) 3: 222].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project