- American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 221-222]
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Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).
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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Sends a paper, which may help to clarify the effect of the Sahara Desert on certain European winds.
On the temperatures of water in the oceans, and the freezing temperature of sea water.
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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