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To Charles Lyell 26 April [1858]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society 30 June 1858
Summary
Communicate papers by CD and A. R. Wallace on "The Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species". Explain that CD and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the same theory to account for the appearance and perpetuation of specific forms, and that neither has yet published, although CD first sketched his theory in 1839. Give their reasons for arranging the joint presentation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 30 June 1858 |
| Classmark: | Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2299 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 8 [June 1858] ). As Brown was a member of council at the time of his death, a new council member had, according to statute, to be elected within three months. Rather than call a special meeting of the society during the summer recess, the council decided to prolong the session of 1857– …
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Addressee
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Lyell, Charles | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
