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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Charles Lyell, 1st baronet

Date:

[13 Jan 1874]

Source of text:

The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)

Summary:

The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].

Thanks for Saturday Review.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Thomas Nettleship Staley

Date:

13 Jan [1874]

Source of text:

The Hawaiian Historical Society (MS B St1)

Summary:

Has read TNS’s article ["On the geography and recent volcanic eruption of the Sandwich Islands", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 38 (1868): 361–9].

Asks for information on decline in population and infanticide in the Sandwich Islands. Seeks corroboration of A. Bishop’s reports.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project