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DCP-LETT-853

From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 60–1b
Summary:

Discusses table of Atlantic dust samples. Thinks dust came from South America.

Discusses Patagonian tuff samples.

Answers CD’s query about material from Pampas. Believes deposit made in brackish water.

Criticises account of Atlantic dust in F. J. F. Meyen [Reise um die Erde (1834–5)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-857F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
19 Apr [1845]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43 Bl. 9–10)
Summary:

Sends small specimens for CGE to examine if he wishes.

Thanks CGE for his letter on Atlantic Dust: CD hopes to send a little paper to the Geological Society of London.

If CGE should examine Pampæan mud, CD would like to know the result.

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