Box Box 1.4
Contains 24 Results:
Letters from Frères, Garnier to Charles Lyell, 19 April 1865 - 5 September1872
Letters from Gastaldi, Bartholomeo to Charles Lyell, 28 August 1857 - 25 May 1866
Letters from Gatta, Luigi to Charles Lyell, 4 September 1872 - 12 October 1872
Summarised as 'translation of Principles into Italian'.
Letters from Gaudin, Charles Theophile to Charles Lyell, 18 May 1859 - 21 January 1863
Letters from Gaudry, Albert to Charles Lyell, October 1859
Letters from de la Condamine, Henry Malcolm to Charles Lyell, 21 June 1851 - 6 September 1857
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Blackheath Faults, G.P. Deshayes naming shells, Drawing of Faults on Loam Pit Hill (Lewisham),
2) Deptford Faults, Drawing of brick wall showing fault line and cement,
3) Ideas about the formation of chalk cliffs in Wealden (East Sussex).
Letters from Doughty, Charles to Charles Lyell, 18 October 1866 - 1 May 1867
Letters from Duncan, Peter Martin to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1866 - 19 January 1870
Letters from Duncker & Humblot to Charles Lyell, 5 March 1867 - 5 March 1867
Letters relate to Lyell's works published in Germany:
1) Duncker announcing safe arrival of corrigenda and M.S at Cotta’s
2) Sum paid to Vieweg for translation
Carl von Cotta defended the concept of evolution and was a supporter of Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism however questioned Lyell's claim that earth was a fluctuation of eternally equal forces, noting the earth's historical development. Vieweg was a specialist German publisher.
Letters from Dunker, Dr. Wilhelm and Elise, to Charles Lyell, 17 May 1851 - 26 November 1852
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Dunker presents Palaeontographica
2)[? Phillippa] going to Chili, Dunker sent 2 Journals - Bound of Palaeontogr. on Brown Coal
Wilhelm Dunker founded the journal Palaeontographica in 1846. Letter is written from Elise, Dunker's cousin and wife, in German, to Lyell.