From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.320)
Summary:
Comments on proofs [of Principles of geology, 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of classes.
Discusses CL’s argument from the absence of Cetacea in Secondary rocks;
finds his discussion of man "superfluous and too orthodox".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project