To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
To M. E. Lyell [24 October 1849]
Summary
Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.
Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [24 Oct 1849] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1266 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [19? October 1866]
Summary
Mary Somerville may use diagrams from Orchids [in her Molecular and microscopic science (1869)], but permission should be obtained from John Murray.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [19? Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5249 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Horner, M. E. | (3) |
Lyell, M. E. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Horner, M. E. | (3) |
Lyell, M. E. | (3) |