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DCP-LETT-530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
7 Aug [1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for details of Smyth’s Island discovered by WHS – particularly whether the islets form a ring surrounding a lagoon. [See Coral reefs, p. 158].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
16 Aug [1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Gives his opinion of a MS on geology. It is not really a scientific work. It might sell well, but CD’s opinion on success of sale is worthless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-532

From:
Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 179
Summary:

Thanks CD for his Journal of researches, "one of the best scientific travelworks of this time", which CFAH intends to translate into German.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-533

From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 11
Summary:

Observations on the geology of Arabia.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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