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WCP1510

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 February 1870
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/10
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 32]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.386)
Summary:

Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].

Is correcting proofs [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4865

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
28 December 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4869

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7847

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 235
Summary:

Asks Lyell to put a question to CD: "To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface [the symmetrical but different curves] at the last points of the fingers and toes be traced?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8227F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Has been looking for something about crop rotation in Origin and Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4887

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
6 March 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8261

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 107–8
Summary:

Sends, for signature, a statement approving change in rules of the Leopoldino Academy [Dresden] to be forwarded to CD to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.415)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416)
Summary:

Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8)
Summary:

Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4888

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
2 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2286

From:
Henry Cole
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
3 July 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 248-249
Summary:

Marked "Private" giving notice of there being insufficient funds from the Treasury to pay for a Director of the Bethnal Green Museum. Also giving indication of the Museum's likely future away from Natural History.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420)
Summary:

Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4866

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
10 November 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4884

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
21 November [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8552F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 327
Summary:

Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Summary:

Offers condolences on the death of CL’s wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8913

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
16 May [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.427)
Summary:

Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4885

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
15 June 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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