To Charles Lyell 30 July [1860]
Summary
Comments on BAAS meeting: "our side seems to have got on very well". Asa Gray, too, is fighting nobly.
Comments on review [by Samuel Wilberforce] in the Quarterly [Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Mentions a favourable review in the London Review.
Wonders if German translation [of the Origin] by Bronn has drawn attention to the subject.
The Natural History Review to be edited by Huxley and others.
Expects CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] to be a bombshell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.222) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2881 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. Huxley, 20 July [1860] , and to John Lubbock , 20 July [1860]. Thomas Henry Huxley had recently agreed to become general editor of the new series of the Natural History Review ; the board of eleven editors also included John Lubbock , George Busk , William Benjamin Carpenter , Philip Lutley Sclater , and Daniel Oliver . C. Lyell 1863 . …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
