From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846–54]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters)
Summary:
Lateral teeth in Arcadae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 319
Summary:
Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 5
Summary:
Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 1c–2
Summary:
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39.2: 128–9, DAR 43.1: 66–7
Summary:
Sends identifications of CD’s Bahia Blanca fossil shells [see 830].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project