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To Charles Lyell [15 or 22 September 1843]
Summary
Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].
BAAS meeting.
Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.
Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.
Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [15 or 22] Sept 1843 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-696 |
To Charles Lyell [16 December 1843]
Summary
Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [16 Dec 1843] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-724 |
