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DCP-LETT-2902

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 170.2: 80
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of a land-bridge connecting Biscay with Ireland and the consequent occurrence in southern Ireland of Asturian plants which are absent from England.

Asks if Hooker or anyone has criticised Edward Forbes’ botanical migration of five floras in the British Isles ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2989

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.233)
Summary:

Admires Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions, but it will discourage investigation of distribution.

Mentions Oswald Heer’s proposed map of Atlantis.

Discusses extinction of plants caused by the glacial era. Migration of plants and animals during glacial period.

Encourages CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].

Comments on unfriendly reviews. Asks CL’s opinion about including a reply to reviewers in next edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.77–78)
Summary:

Hears Origin [2d ed.] was sold out. Next edition will need a good many alterations. Asks JM to provide him with a copy of the second revised U. S. edition. He wants to see how his long corrections look in type.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3899

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
20 November 1860
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.117
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday3900

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 November 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

FVM-60-11-20

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 November 1860
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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