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DCP-LETT-1186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)
Summary:

Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.

Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.

Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].

Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2091

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 June 1848
Source of text:
BL RP 1880
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP406

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
16 June 1848
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/89
Summary:

Describes voyage from Liverpool to Pará [Belém] which was achieved in 31 days (26 April - 28 May); detailed description of City, including its public spaces and buildings. Rented a house "nearer the woods"; abundance of oranges and bananas and low cost of beef; striking racial mix in the City of Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians; enjoys climate, has been collecting insects and comments on variety; collected 400 "distinct kinds"; hopes to collect plants when he gets his own house; will send word when a parcel is expected.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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