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DCP-LETT-956

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 151
Summary:

Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].

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DCP-LETT-989

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 49
Summary:

Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-995

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:

Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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