To Charles Lyell [8 March 1850]
Summary
Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.
Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1308 |
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letter | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |