To Charles Lyell   [16 June 1848]

Summary

Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.

Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.

Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].

Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-1186

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Charles Lyell, 1st baronet

Date

[16 June 1848]

Sent from

Down

Source of text

American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)

Physical description

8pp †

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Lyell, Charles