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From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 47–8
Summary:

Sends information on Gryphaea orientalis. [See South America, p. 212.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar? 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 53–5
Summary:

Comments on G. B. Sowerby’s identifications of South American fossil shells [812]. [Notes from more than one original memorandum].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 50
Summary:

Has marked probable depths of the specimens on CD’s list of S. American shells. Asks for details which would provide more precise conclusions. [See South America, p. 226.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 151
Summary:

Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 49
Summary:

Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:

Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
? Dec 1846
Source of text:
MSF 2, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Between 1846 and 1854
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1853
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 May 1851
Source of text:
John Innes Centre, Library and Archives W. H. Flower Collection 11/1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 27. / 53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/26, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1844
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: B1–2
Summary:

[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project