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DCP-LETT-5015

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314)
Summary:

Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.

Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.

Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5016

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142)
Summary:

CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11444

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.357
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3343

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.149
Summary:

Reports on paper [R.S.P.T., 156, 181-] by [William] Huggins on spectra of certain nebulae with mode of determining their brightness. Doubts some presuppositions, but regards paper as fit for publication in R.S.P.T.

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John Herschel Project
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