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To Charles Lyell 25 August [1845]
Summary
Discusses the power of land covered with snow to radiate heat.
Criticises CL’s discussion of slavery [in Travels in North America (1845)]. A review of CL’s book is in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Mentions John Lindley’s views on carbonic acid gas and extinction;
refers to the discussion of multiple and single creations in Humboldt’s Kosmos.
The origin of volcanic craters of elevation.
There is a popular demand for a new edition of Principles.
Praises palaeobotanical work of C. J. F. Bunbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Aug [1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-905 |
From Charles Lyell [after 2 August 1845]
Summary
CD’s criticism of his book [Travels in North America (1845)].
Compares invertebrate animals of Tasmania and England.
Mentions views of C. J. F. Bunbury on climate of the Carboniferous period.
Robert Brown says Australian flora has the widest range.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Aug 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-901 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
