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To Charles Lyell   3 September [1874]

Summary

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9621

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To Charles Lyell   31 May [1874]

Summary

Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  31 May [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9477

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To Charles Lyell   23 September 1874

Summary

Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.

Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.

Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  23 Sept 1874
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9654

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From Charles Lyell   25 September 1874

Summary

Notes recent confirmation of CD’s views on subsidence in [island of] St Jago.

Describes Carboniferous strata discovered on Island of Mull by J. W. Judd. Contained evidence of Miocene sinking of volcanoes.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Sept 1874
Classmark:  K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 457
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9658

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To Charles Lyell   [9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874]

Summary

Arranges a visit to CL.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8715

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From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell   27 September 1873

Summary

Returns CD’s books and discusses apples and Crags at Sudbury.

Author:  Searles Valentine Wood
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  27 Sept 1873
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6330-1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9075F

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  • Charles Lyell, 19 September 1873 ). Wood was moving from Essex to Suffolk (see letter from S.  V.  Wood Jr to Charles Lyell, 19 September 1873  and n.  10). Searles Valentine Wood Sr died in 1880. William Whitaker published his discovery of the crag at Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1874 ( …

To Charles Lyell   5 July [1856]

Summary

Discusses theory of submerged continental extensions. Objects that if it is applied to one island, it must be applied to all. Admits that some volcanoes may have been associated with subsidence, in contrast to his former view. Cites evidence from S. American Cordillera. Doubts that elevation associated with volcanoes is merely local, and that great ocean areas are necessarily sinking.

Says he will make his essay [on species] as complete as possible and will discuss CL’s Principles.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  5 July [1856]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.133)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1917

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  • Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 July 1856 . CD refers to his map (pl. 3) in Coral reefs on which fringing reefs, which he believed to be areas ofelevation, are coloured red. These coincided with areas of active volcanoes, marked by vermilion spots. CD, however, found no reason in later years to change his view. The second edition of Coral reefs , published in 1874, …

From Charles Lyell   15 March 1863

Summary

Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.

Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1863
Classmark:  K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4041

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  • Lyell reported that 5000 copies had been sold (K.  M.  Lyell ed.  1881, 2: 375). A third edition was published in November 1863, and a fourth in 1874. Some of the changes in the second and third editions are detailed in Grayson 1985 . The references are to William Robert Grove and Lamarck 1809 (see letter to Charles

To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster   [7 April 1874]

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Summary

Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:  [7 Apr 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 97: C52–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9384

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  • Charles Lyell . William Benjamin Carpenter lived at 56 Regent’s Park Road, London ( Post Office London directory 1875). The enclosure, an appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, has not been found; see, however, the letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] . …