From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hamilton Smith
Date:
26 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.40)
Summary:
Discusses extract sent by CHS dealing with island of Pouynipéte. Agrees account of island by Lloghtsky [Johann Lhotsky] is suspect.
Comments on view that former migration of animals, plants, and man was by continental extensions now submerged.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project