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To Charles Lyell   26 April [1858]

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Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.

Discusses migration of plants and animals.

A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  26 Apr [1858]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2262

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  • J.  D. Hooker, 10 April [1858] , in which similar topics are discussed. Thomas Thomson was superintendent of the Calcutta botanic garden, 1854–61. His letter to CD has not been found. CD had directed the same query to other botanists late in 1857 ( …
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