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DCP-LETT-5768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2)
Summary:

Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349)
Summary:

The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".

Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".

Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1515

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[30 June 1868]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.19 (C: RS:HS 24.218)
Summary:

Sends a paper, which may help to clarify the effect of the Sahara Desert on certain European winds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[13 July 1868]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.20 (C: RS:HS 24.220)
Summary:

On the temperatures of water in the oceans, and the freezing temperature of sea water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 July 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352)
Summary:

Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.

Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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