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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
18 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122)
Summary:

Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
28 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 354
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 246
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project