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To Charles Lyell   10 November [1856]

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Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.

Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.

Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].

Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  10 Nov [1856]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1984

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  • Wedgwood died on 6 November 1856 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 161). She had broken her hip in an accident in September (see letter to W.  D. Fox, 3 October [1856] ). Lyell had been working for several years on an analysis of the volcanic geology of Madeira and intended to publish a paper in collaboration with Georg Hartung (see K.   M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 232, 282). The paper was eventually abandoned, but Hartung later published most of their results ( Hartung 1864 ). …
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