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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
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 June 1859
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 20)
Summary:

Extended discussion of their respective difficulties with the definition and status of species and with the extent to which the theory of transmutation may be applied.

Has rediscovered S. S. Haldeman’s 1844 paper defending the transmutation theory with great skill.

Asks for reference to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s first enunciation of the progressive development and transmutation theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project