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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[4 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63)
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.

Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.

Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.

Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[24 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 332
Summary:

Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.

Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[19? Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford)
Summary:

Mary Somerville may use diagrams from Orchids [in her Molecular and microscopic science (1869)], but permission should be obtained from John Murray.

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Darwin Correspondence Project