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FL-1324

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[12 October 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 612
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel13752

From:
Henry Francis Blanford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0107.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

As directed by Meteorological Committee, HB sends report on 1864 Calcutta cyclone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.321)
Summary:

More comments on proofs [of CL’s Principles of geology, 10th ed.]. Discusses permanence of continents and other points.

Refers to passage describing evaporation of snow in Journal [of researches, pp. 277–8].

Cites astronomers’ views on increasing length of day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Pritchard
Date:
12 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
A. Pritchard comp. 1897, p. 93
Summary:

Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,

and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.

Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 2
Summary:

Instructions on paying a bill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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