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DCP-LETT-6573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359)
Summary:

Has heard that book by Alphonse M[ilne]-Edwards [? Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques, 4 vols. (1867–71)] is excellent.

Asks when horns appear on young male fallow deer.

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DCP-LETT-6580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

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DCP-LETT-6585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
31 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.361)
Summary:

Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.

Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.

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