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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 480
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Comments on SBJS’s research on Palaeolithic flint tools.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 176
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of his memoir on the fenland [Geology of the fenland (1877)].

Outlines the results of his recent researches into the geological history of man, the development of Palaeolithic culture, the occurrence of Palaeolithic remains in the boulder-clays of eastern England, and their relation to glacial and inter-glacial periods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 177
Summary:

Thanks CD for his expression of interest in SBJS’s work. His researches on the age and divisions of the Palaeolithic period will be published soon by the Geological Survey [On the manufacture of gun-flints, the methods of excavating for flint, the age of Palaeolithic man, etc. (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 178
Summary:

Thanks CD for his gift of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project