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DCP-LETT-2903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.225)
Summary:

Discusses at length CL’s criticisms of natural selection.

Comments on possible former connection between the Galapagos and South America.

Discounts survival of mammals on atolls.

Discusses reptile origin of mammals.

Discounts development of a mammal on an island and the descent of mammals from a bird.

The antiquity of islands.

Comments on bats of New Zealand. Geographical distribution of seals. Discusses Amblyrhynchus.

Glad CL will read his MS on origin of dogs [Variation 1: 15–43].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Regrets he has nothing that he could contribute to the Field and cannot spare the time to work out anything on bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12383

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W. Paterson
Date:
[1 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.240 & 23.305
Summary:

Thanks for letter regarding his prediction of the floods. May be partly to blame as he did mention certain happenings that could be the result of solar phenomenon. Comments on this. If WP communicates this to a paper would like two or three copies.

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John Herschel Project
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