From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1855
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 7)
Summary:
CL would like to put Joachim Barrande on the Royal Society’s foreign list. Of French geologists and palaeontologists, he is the man who has made the greatest sacrifices and produced the greatest results.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project