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DCP-LETT-578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22)
Summary:

Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
18 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122)
Summary:

Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
1 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157)
Summary:

Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7404

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1871?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.623)
Summary:

Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
31 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.439)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.

Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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