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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Has been looking for something about crop rotation in Origin and Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.415)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416)
Summary:

Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8)
Summary:

Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420)
Summary:

Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project