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DCP-LETT-815

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hamilton Smith
Date:
14 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has read CHS’s paper, "Original population of America" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 38 (1844–5): 1–20], and is eager to know reference for the account of a "ruined city in the Caroline Group", indicating that the land has subsided. Refers to his own subsidence hypothesis in his work [Coral reefs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-816

From:
Charles Hamilton Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1845
Source of text:
DAR 177: 188 (fragile)
Summary:

Reports on an ancient town on Ascension, which is now at sea-level and approachable only by boat.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hamilton Smith
Date:
26 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.40)
Summary:

Discusses extract sent by CHS dealing with island of Pouynipéte. Agrees account of island by Lloghtsky [Johann Lhotsky] is suspect.

Comments on view that former migration of animals, plants, and man was by continental extensions now submerged.

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