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DCP-LETT-823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Trenham Reeks
Date:
[before 8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 51–2
Summary:

CD sends queries on chemical composition of various Beagle mineral specimens.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-824

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.42)
Summary:

Remarks on fossils described in A. D. d’Orbigny’s Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale.

Asks CL whether he has talked with John Murray concerning 2d ed. [of Journal of researches].

Mentions conversation with Hugh Cuming about South American shells. Has had G. B. Sowerby (elder) look at some specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-825

From:
Trenham Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 43–4, 49–50
Summary:

Sends results of chemical tests on specimens [of salt, see South America, pp. 73–5].

Encloses abstract from Justus Liebig on composition of bones and their ability to withstand decay.

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