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DCP-LETT-3420

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses manuscript by H. W. Bates [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

Mentions CD’s forthcoming book [Orchids].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3463

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28–31 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.274)
Summary:

Suggests that the height of the water which formed the shelves in Glen Roy was determined not by the height of the blocking glacier but by the height of a col. Notes problems in the idea.

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