From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
27 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187)
Summary:
Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].
Discusses relations between fossil and living types.
Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project