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)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [16 June 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1186 |
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- … 1848 , p. 319. Chambers cited CD’s theory of coral reef formation as justification for his own suggestion. Robert Chambers’s authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation ( [Chambers] 1844 ) was widely known by 1854 ( A. Desmond 1982 , p. 210 n. 28). See Correspondence vol. 3, letters to J. D. Hooker, [ …
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