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To Charles Lyell 30 July 1837
Summary
Galapagos land birds and reptiles.
No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."
Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.
Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.
The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 July 1837 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-367 |
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles |
