Charles R. Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1860 September 23
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| TITLE INFORMATION | |||
| Title | Charles R. Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1860 September 23 | ||
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| Creator | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | ||
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| Abstract | Printed, with minor changes: Life and Letters II, 341-44. p. 341, line 6, add: has sent review by A[sa] Gray;1 as Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. has printed [Jean Louis Rodolphe] Agassiz's article,2 will ask its editor [William Jardine] in fairness to reprint Gray at CD's expense and with Gray's name attached; Gray's review good because it gives so much of [Francois Jules] Pictet [de la Rive]; "The Annals, I fear, have very small circulation"; misunderstood Lyell on types; mentions health of Etty [Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield, CD's daughter] and death of the [Thomas Henry] Huxleys's son [Noel Huxley]. p. 342, lines 12 to 14, add in left margin: "[Richard] Owen if he chose to attend to such view could work this out." p. 342, line 20, add: was silent because unsure that there was fossil rodent in Australia, but thought not; as to Australia's especial suitability for marsupials, "I have always thought it a gigantic hallucination of Owen.--not to mention Rodents"; dingo was wild long before South Australian volcanic outburst, and there are many marsupial species in Brazil; also, New Guinea, although humid, is tenanted by marsupials as exclusively as Australia; despite antiquity of dingo (referred to in dog MS3), thinks dingo introduced by man, and if so, this bears on antiquity of man; if dingo existed outside Australia then it is not aboriginal in Australia; [René Primevère] Lesson says same about dog of New Ireland, but Lesson not to be trusted; likes case of tree stump living by natural grafting of roots, wants reference on it; thinks case confined to Coniferae.4 p. 342, line 27, add: [Jean Louis Rodolphe] Agassiz's remark in [Josiah Clark] Nott and [George Robins] Gliddon5 on coincidence of color alone being a fleeting character "does not go for much in his comparison of man & anthropoid apes." | ||
| Language | English (eng) | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | ||
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| Type | Text | ||
| Format | text | ||
| Extent | 12p. | ||
| Digital Origin | digitized other analog | ||
| Reformatting Quality | access | ||
| ORIGIN INFORMATION | |||
| Date Issued | 1860-09-23 | ||
| Date Modified | 2019 | ||
| PARENT COLLECTION | |||
| Title | An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society | ||
| Call Number | Mss.B.D25 | ||
| URL | https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D25-ead.xml | ||
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