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DCP-LETT-350F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Eugène (Eugène) Robert
Date:
28 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Robert 1840 , pp. 443–4
Summary:

Discusses the geology of volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-404

From:
William Buckland
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
9 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47)
Summary:

Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-405

From:
Robert Bastard James
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 10 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 43
Summary:

Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-406

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A1–2
Summary:

Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.

Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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