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From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 47–8
Summary:

Sends information on Gryphaea orientalis. [See South America, p. 212.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar? 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 53–5
Summary:

Comments on G. B. Sowerby’s identifications of South American fossil shells [812]. [Notes from more than one original memorandum].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 50
Summary:

Has marked probable depths of the specimens on CD’s list of S. American shells. Asks for details which would provide more precise conclusions. [See South America, p. 226.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
13 May [1845]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:

Fears he cannot supply additional data [on shells].

Makes suggestions for Thomas Edmondston, naturalist on board the Herald, of places to visit and geological data to collect on proposed California expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project