To Charles Lyell 2 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on note from Charles Kingsley saying CD’s theory is not opposed to a high conception of the Deity.
Mentions negative views of Origin of Sedgwick, John Crawfurd, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, and Joseph Prestwich.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2565 |
To Charles Lyell 4 May [1860]
Summary
Is sending CL an arrow-head. Says John Lubbock tells of vast numbers of flint tools in peat in France. Urges CL to conduct further research on the subject.
Comments on paper by J. S. Newberry concerning palaeozoic deposits in America [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 208–18]
and on A. von Keyserling’s view of species change.
Mentions J. W. Salter’s chart arranging Spirifer.
Comments on Andrew Murray’s paper on the Origin ["On Mr Darwin’s theory of the origin of species", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 4 (1860): 274–91].
A Manchester newspaper article says CD has proved "might is right".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 May [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.210) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2782 |
To Charles Lyell 25 [June 1860]
Summary
Encloses arrow-heads.
Comments on gestation in dogs.
Mentions BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Etty’s illness.
Criticises views of J. W. Dawson on organic and geological change.
The problems of distinguishing varieties and species.
Discusses facts explained by his theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.220) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2843 |
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- … 1860] . CD refers to the shaped stones known as celts that had been found in alluvial deposits and identified as arrowheads or hatchets by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes. Recently celts had been found in association with the remains of extinct animals. Lyell, Hugh Falconer , Joseph Prestwich , …