From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.231)
Summary:
Discusses views of T. V. Wollaston concerning island species related to those of mainland; possible land connection between islands and mainland.
Comments on bats of Atlantic islands.
Plant extinction on St Helena.
Experiments on Drosera.
Bronn’s objections [to the Origin] at end of his translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project