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From Charles Lyell 13 February 1837
Summary
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1837 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-343 |
From Charles Lyell 29 August and 5 September 1837
Summary
Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.
Has met warm reception in Germany.
Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss.
Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living.
CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug and 5 Sept 1837 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-376 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
