To Charles Lyell   [3 January 1850]

Summary

Discusses CL’s paper, "On craters of denudation" [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): 207–34], which "will be a thorn in the side of É[lie] de B[eaumont]". Notes evidence from Galapagos overlooked by CL. Mentions other examples of craters.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-1287

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Charles Lyell, 1st baronet

Date

[3 Jan 1850]

Sent from

Down

Source of text

American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.90)

Physical description

4pp

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

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

• Darwin, C. R.
• Lyell, Charles