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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
14 Oct [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Returns proof-sheets of an article he has reviewed for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. He will find it useful when he comes to describe the Cordilleras of Chile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[14 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Returns proofs of J. O. French’s article ["Account of the province of La Rioja: S. America", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 381–406].

Gratified by Humboldt’s praise of Journal of researches [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 502].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
1 Nov [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
16 May 1840
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project