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DCP-LETT-1649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
18 [Mar 1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

CD has been a referee for LH’s Nile geology paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. Praises the work but offers criticism not in his report: Joseph Russegger’s statement about the baked Upper Sandstone deposit cannot be believed; LH’s paper is too long.

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DCP-LETT-1676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
27 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

Regrets that he has not published his information on superficial beds except in abbreviated form, on p. 143 of Volcanic islands.

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DCP-LETT-3094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
20 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Summary:

Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

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