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DCP-LETT-637A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Aug 1842
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4723 paper 15949)
Summary:

The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of part five of the Zoology, now published, is presented.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-639

From:
Thomas Blunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1842
Source of text:
DAR 5: B17–18
Summary:

Gives the height of Shrewsbury above sea-level.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
[11 Aug 1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

Congratulates HES on producing an authoritative document [BAAS committee report on zoological nomenclature].

Has been to N. Wales looking at glacier traces described by W. Buckland, which are most interesting and clear. Has written an article on what he saw ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William John Broderip
Date:
[31 Aug 1842]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Discusses toad [mentioned in Journal of researches, p. 115].

Describes house at Down.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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