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To Charles Lyell   [18 November 1849]

Summary

Criticises Élie de Beaumont’s view of a right angle junction of a stream of lava and a dike.

Mentions his misgivings in voting to recommend J. D. Forbes for Royal Medal.

Notes Daniel Sharpe’s work on mica schist.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [18 Nov 1849]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.84)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1271

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  • 1838, pp.  148–50. CD’s copy of this volume, with notes on this and other passages, is in the Darwin Library–CUL. CD evidently had discussed élie de Beaumont’s views with Lyell in the interval between this letter and letter to Charles