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DCP-LETT-9075F

From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6330-1)
Summary:

Returns CD’s books and discusses apples and Crags at Sudbury.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9077F

From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Sept 1873
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6422-3)
Summary:

Sends proofs of pages on shells with revised species names. Discusses Crag Moll, Sutton and Butley Red Grag, and Scrobicularia beds. Son asks him to thank Lyell for extract from Darwin’s book.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Summary:

Arranges a visit to CL.

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DCP-LETT-9240

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

DCP-LETT-9384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:

Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.

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DCP-LETT-9477

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
31 May [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Summary:

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450)
Summary:

Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.

Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.

Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].

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