To Charles Lyell 1 June [1867]
Summary
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5558 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … s arguments, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1867] . CD refers to Campbell’s …
- … 1867 (see n. 3, below). No letter from Lyell enquiring about a review by CD’s nephew Henry Parker has been found. CD refers to [Parker] 1862 , an article in the Saturday Review discussing [G. D. Campbell] 1862 , a review of Orchids by the duke of Argyll, George Douglas Campbell . See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To Charles Lyell 12 October [1866]
Summary
More comments on proofs [of CL’s Principles of geology, 10th ed.]. Discusses permanence of continents and other points.
Refers to passage describing evaporation of snow in Journal [of researches, pp. 277–8].
Cites astronomers’ views on increasing length of day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.321) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5239 |
From Charles Lyell 1 March 1866
Summary
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 91: 89–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5024 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1867–8 , chapters 12 and 13, respectively. For a summary of Lyell’s position on former climate changes, see Ospovat 1977 and Fleming 1998 . CD wrote of uncertainties about the temperature of space, in the light of recent contributions by physicists and astronomers to the understanding of glaciation, in the letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
From Charles Lyell 16 July 1867
Summary
Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.
Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?
Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5582F |
To Charles Lyell 18 July [1867]
Summary
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 July [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5584 |
To Charles Lyell 20 November [1860]
Summary
Admires Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions, but it will discourage investigation of distribution.
Mentions Oswald Heer’s proposed map of Atlantis.
Discusses extinction of plants caused by the glacial era. Migration of plants and animals during glacial period.
Encourages CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
Comments on unfriendly reviews. Asks CL’s opinion about including a reply to reviewers in next edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2989 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1867–8 ). Lyell published his work on the geological evidence for the antiquity of man in 1863 ( C. Lyell 1863 ). Hewett Cottrell Watson accused Forbes of plagiarising his subdivisions of the British flora ( Watson 1847–59 , 1: 465–72). For Hooker’s and CD’s views on the controversy between Watson and Forbes, see Correspondence vol. 3, letter from J. D. …
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
To Charles Lyell 7 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses transport of frog spawn and young molluscs by birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.337) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5708 |
To Charles Lyell 4 May [1869]
Summary
Asks for a photograph of CL to be used by a society [in Serbia].
Comments on article by Wallace ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].
Has finished new edition of Origin [5th (1869)]
and is back at work on sexual selection [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 May [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.369) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6725 |
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