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DCP-LETT-882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[5 July 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.43)
Summary:

Sends the first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.]. Explains his dedication of book to CL. Describes revisions.

Has received CL’s book [Travels in North America, 2 vols. (1845)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[30 July – 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.44)
Summary:

Comments extensively on CL’s book [Travels in North America (1845)]. Lyell’s views on slavery, the clergy, education, and coalfields. Has difficulty in tracing Lyell’s course. Comments on geological portions, especially CL’s comparisons of living and fossil organisms to those of South America and Tasmania; animal formation of carbonic acid and effects of vegetable decay; Indians’ use of lumber. Discusses water-borne transportation of wood, fruit, and seeds. Notes distribution of Arctic flora.

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