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DCP-LETT-426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
7 Sept 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/8)
Summary:

Report on R. A. C. Austen’s paper on the origin of limestone in Devonshire [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1838): 669–70]. CD deems it not worthy of publication in Transactions.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Sept [1838]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958)
Summary:

Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[14] Sept [1838]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11)
Summary:

Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.

Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.

Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.

On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-428A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Sept 1838
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the second number of the second part of the Zoology.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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