From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[7? Dec 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.88)
Summary:
Continues discussion of Dana’s Geology [1849]. Comments on dikes of Hawaiian volcanoes and Dana’s view of craters of denudation. Compares role of sea and rivers in forming valleys. Criticises Dana’s treatment of CD’s account of coral reefs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project