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HENSLOW-1139

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1851
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

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Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
18 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122)
Summary:

Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
1 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157)
Summary:

Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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