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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
11 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 134
Summary:

Interested in the fossil scorpions found by AG in the Lower Carboniferous strata of Scotland. Hopes further searches will yield more land animals and offers to subscribe funds to such a search if it falls outside the Geological Survey’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 27
Summary:

Thanks CD for offer of assistance in exploration of Eskdale beds. Describes finds of scorpions and unusual amphibians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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