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WCP4877

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
25 February [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364)
Summary:

Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4878

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
13 March 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4879

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
17 March 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
20 March [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Mss.B.D25.367
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.367)
Summary:

Discusses views of Wallace, H. N. Moseley, and Croll on the mechanics of glacier movement.

Comments on Wallace’s new book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4880

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
22 March 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6749

From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
29 March 1869
Source of text:
Bunbury, F. H. & Lyell, K. H. (Eds.). (1891). In: Memorials of Sir C. J. F. Bunbury, Bart . Vol. 6. Midenhall, UK: Privately published. [pp. 33-34]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4864

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
4 April 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4881

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
28 April 1869
Source of text:
  • American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 224]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6725

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 May [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.369)
Summary:

Asks for a photograph of CL to be used by a society [in Serbia].

Comments on article by Wallace ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].

Has finished new edition of Origin [5th (1869)]

and is back at work on sexual selection [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 May 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.370)
Summary:

Cites article by David Forbes dealing with the geology of the S. American Cordillera ["Geology of Bolivia and South Peru", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): 7–62].

Discusses the flexures of the Cordillera, the age of the mountains, and basaltic dikes in granite areas.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4883

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
16 June [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4886

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
4 September [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1837

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
1 October 1869?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL RP 7777
Summary:

About corrections he is making on one of Lyell's books.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6965F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 [Nov 1869]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection)
Summary:

Has just arrived in London, and would like to visit the following morning at breakfast time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5974

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.346)
Summary:

Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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