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From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 171
Summary:

Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
25 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 139/36X, pp. 263–72)
Summary:

Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.

Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.

Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 172
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 173
Summary:

Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 174
Summary:

Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161: 175
Summary:

Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.

Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project