To Charles Lyell 4 December [1860]
Summary
Sale of Origin requires new edition [3d (Apr 1861)].
Further discussion of geological elevation and subsidence in Europe. Compares evidence to that of South America. His theory that semi-fluid matter underlies earth’s crust.
Mentions David Forbes’s explanation of South American nitrate deposits.
Has followed CL’s advice not to reply directly to reviewers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.236) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3006 |
To Benjamin Silliman Jr 4 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information on cave rat.
CD is obliged for news of J. D. Dana’s recovery.
Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3007 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1860]
Summary
Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.
Drosera experiments detailed.
Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3008 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
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