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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56)
Summary:

Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[Oct–Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50)
Summary:

Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[19 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.51)
Summary:

Objects to the stupid way a plate is bound into South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52)
Summary:

Discusses the geological origin of terraces.

Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].

Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hutton
Date:
[Apr 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.54)
Summary:

Returns copy [of J. Hortic. Soc. Lond.]. Mentions article by William Herbert ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[21 Apr 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48)
Summary:

Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
31 [Mar 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for his note; as soon as CD knows how many Cordillera Tertiary fossil shells require illustration he will make arrangements for GBS jr to begin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49)
Summary:

Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.

Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure)
Summary:

Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].

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