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DCP-LETT-556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
24 Feb [1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41 (z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:

Much interested in WCR’s paper on "Whirlwinds excited by fire" [Am. J. Sci. 36 (1839): 50–9; Edinburgh New Philos. J. 27 (1839): 369–79].

Sends a summary account of circular clouds and waterspouts formed during volcanic eruption in the Azores [S. Tillard, "Eruption of a volcano in sea off St Michael", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1812): 152–8].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
[22 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41(z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:

Illness has long delayed CD’s thanks for WCR’s meteorological pamphlets and geological reports. Mentions a reference to whirlwinds leaving rotary patterns in desert sand.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
Date:
[25 May 1845]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-3)
Summary:

Thanks PEdeS for gift of his book [Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land (1845)].

Asks how much engravings of shells cost.

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