To John Lubbock 19 [July 1855]
Summary
Congratulations to JL on finding musk-ox fossil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 19 [July 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 1 (EH 88206446) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1720 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 4 March [1855]
Summary
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CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"
Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1641 |
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- … Charles Lyell , who believed ancient mammals would undermine any notion of the progressive development of animal types over time. In discussing the geographical distribution of rodents, Waterhouse had stated that Polynesian islands comprised a zoological province in which there were no rodents, ‘at least none but such as there is good reason to believe have been introduced by shipping’ (A. K. Johnston ed. 1850, p. 93). In the revised edition (A. K. Johnston ed. 1856, …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
