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HENSLOW-1129

From:
William Jardine
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 January 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[15 June 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Describes the two species of lizard [Amblyrhynchus] found in the Galapagos Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1131

From:
Joseph Allen (Bishop of Ely)
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 July 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
2 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks WS to write to his friend to make his corrections [in CD’s MS of Journal of researches] in ink.

Capt. FitzRoy agrees with the propriety of beginning to print [CD’s volume separately] at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
[22 or 23] Sept 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.8)
Summary:

Thanks WS for a document [see 379]. Promises to send MS and woodcuts before night. Discusses details of printing and correction. Thanks WS and Henry Colburn for assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[c. Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14)
Summary:

Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9)
Summary:

Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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