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DCP-LETT-9426F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981)
Summary:

Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.

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DCP-LETT-9619

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 , 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.

CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.

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DCP-LETT-9658

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457
Summary:

Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.

Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.

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