To Charles Lyell 1 June [1867]
Summary
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5558 |
From Charles Lyell 16 July 1867
Summary
Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.
Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?
Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5582F |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
To Charles Lyell 7 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses transport of frog spawn and young molluscs by birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.337) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5708 |
To Charles Lyell 18 July [1867]
Summary
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 July [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5584 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles |
