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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
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

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