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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
26 [Sept 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.228)
Summary:

Mentions extinction on St Helena.

Madeira and Canary Island insects are found at Cape of Good Hope.

Regrets errors on dingo in his manuscript on the dog.

Discusses crosses among pigeons.

Compares development in birds and mammals.

Plans to write about other domestic animals.

Discusses races of early man.

Falconer’s discoveries of fossil elephants.

Comments on articles by Asa Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project