To Charles Lyell 5 [July 1860]
Summary
Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.
Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.
Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].
Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2860 |
To Charles Lyell 30 July [1860]
Summary
Comments on BAAS meeting: "our side seems to have got on very well". Asa Gray, too, is fighting nobly.
Comments on review [by Samuel Wilberforce] in the Quarterly [Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Mentions a favourable review in the London Review.
Wonders if German translation [of the Origin] by Bronn has drawn attention to the subject.
The Natural History Review to be edited by Huxley and others.
Expects CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] to be a bombshell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.222) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2881 |