From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21[-2] May 1845
Source of text:
DAR 181: 16
Summary:
Discusses insects collected by CD on St Paul’s Island and the Galapagos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses insects collected by CD on St Paul’s Island and the Galapagos.
Returns notes on Confervae.
Has had information from Ehrenberg on organic forms in Atlantic dust.
Thanks for sketch of Galapagos flora.
Discusses the microscopic structure of rock samples from Chile and the Pampas. Describes organic remains found in the samples.
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.]