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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
29 Apr 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

Keeling Islands, his first coral lagoons; he has been occupied with subject of coral formation for six months.

Very busy at sea rewriting old geological notes. Has difficulties with writing.

FitzRoy has proposed joint account of the journey, combining CD’s journal with his own.

Looks forward with anxiety to Henslow’s reaction to the geological notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.260
Summary:

Reports conflicting observations of Gamma Virginis. Uses JH's method of measuring double star positions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project