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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[1845?]
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris
Summary:

Arranges to call on correspondent and bring some shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for list of the Bahia Blanca fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
12 [Nov 1845]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks for a meeting in order to go over the shells [which GBS was to describe in the appendix on Tertiary fossil shells in South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[1 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cannot find two specimens of S. American fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[3 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Suggests location of lost shell specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[9? Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses GBS’s completion of his descriptions of fossil shells for the appendix to South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project