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To Charles Lyell [5 July 1845]
Summary
Sends the first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.]. Explains his dedication of book to CL. Describes revisions.
Has received CL’s book [Travels in North America, 2 vols. (1845)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [5 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-882 |
To Charles Lyell [30 July – 2 August 1845]
Summary
Comments extensively on CL’s book [Travels in North America (1845)]. Lyell’s views on slavery, the clergy, education, and coalfields. Has difficulty in tracing Lyell’s course. Comments on geological portions, especially CL’s comparisons of living and fossil organisms to those of South America and Tasmania; animal formation of carbonic acid and effects of vegetable decay; Indians’ use of lumber. Discusses water-borne transportation of wood, fruit, and seeds. Notes distribution of Arctic flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [30 July – 2 Aug 1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-899 |
