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