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DCP-LETT-1919A
Summary
Cancelled: appears in 1920.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 July [1856] |
| Classmark: | Charles Lyell’s notebook II: 95–8? |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1919A |
To Charles Lyell 8 July [1856]
Summary
Thanks CL for loan of [Matthew Fontaine?] Maury’s map.
Discusses possibility of submerged continental extension including Madeira, Canaries, and Azores.
Mentions icebergs as carriers of European plants.
Hooker’s work on Antarctic flora.
Comments on coolness of tropics in glacial period and consequent migrations. Hooker’s views on this.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 July [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.134) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1920 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
