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WCP2101

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 January 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 64-67
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2102

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 January 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 68-69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2103

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 January? 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 70-72
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2104

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 January 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 73-74
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2106

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 February 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 77-78
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4875

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
20 February 1868
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. [pp. 221-222]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2)
Summary:

Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349)
Summary:

The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".

Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".

Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7021

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
23 March 1868
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland: MS.41233
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel1515

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[30 June 1868]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.19 (C: RS:HS 24.218)
Summary:

Sends a paper, which may help to clarify the effect of the Sahara Desert on certain European winds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11529

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.444
Summary:

Much obliged for calling his attention to M. C. E. Du Four's paper, though he cannot reconcile the general reasoning. Comments on the effect of the Sirocco on the Föhn of the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11530

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.445
Summary:

Sends Captain [P. F.] Shortland's account of his recent soundings and temperatures of the sea. Comments on these readings in the light of theory. What does JH think of the matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[13 July 1868]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.20 (C: RS:HS 24.220)
Summary:

On the temperatures of water in the oceans, and the freezing temperature of sea water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 July 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352)
Summary:

Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.

Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2112

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 November 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 87-88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1695

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 November 1868
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3948-3976
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4868

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
5 December [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1696

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 December 1868
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3948-3976
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4876

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
23 December 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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