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DCP-LETT-1310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

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DCP-LETT-1308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.

Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.

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