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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.111)
Summary:

Has found a house on Baker Street to take for a month.

Mentions Daniel Sharpe’s study of the Grampians.

Association of various metamorphic rocks and relationship of their foliation to their dip and strike. Discusses foliation of schists and its origin. Comments on fluidity of gneiss and schists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project