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From:

William Benjamin Carpenter

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

21 Dec 1844

Source of text:

DAR 39: 33–5

Summary:

Discusses microscopic examination of rock specimens taken from Pampas deposit and from Chilean tuff. Says he finds organic remains only in the tuff.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Joseph Dalton Hooker

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

30 Dec 1844

Source of text:

DAR 100: 32–4

Summary:

Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".

Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.

Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

Galapagos flora work goes on well.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project