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DCP-LETT-1050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[Jan? 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.55)
Summary:

Arranges to meet with WBC to get his advice about buying a microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hutton
Date:
[1847 – 12 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.67)
Summary:

Tells RH that he has secured an introduction to Lady Elizabeth Finch through a friend of his father’s. Thanks RH for his efforts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1053

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[on or before 20 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.57)
Summary:

Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65)
Summary:

Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.

Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].

Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[24 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58)
Summary:

Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.

Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.

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