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To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
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 |
From H. C. Watson 10 November 1856
Summary
Greatly interested in CD’s experiments with seeds in salt water [see "Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Believes CD exaggerates the force of the objection, against migration, that seeds tend to sink.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1985 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
