To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and 26[–8] October 1864 . C. …
- … R. Wallace, 2 January 1864 , and letters to J. D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and …
- … J. D. Hooker, 25 March [1874] , Calendar no. 9372). CD did not change later editions of Origin. See also O’Brien 1970 , and Burkhardt 1974 , pp. 43–5. The reference is to Variation ; CD had been revising the early chapters since mid-November 1864, …
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
