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To William Lonsdale   3 August [1837]

Dear Sir

Not being aware of one of the rules of the Society, I omitted to ask, during the last Council day, permission to withdraw the abstract which I read on my views concerning coral Formations.1 Being engaged in drawing up an account of the Voyage of the Beagle with Capt. FitzRoy, who wishes the principal results to be given, I am now very anxious to make this request to the Council

Dear Sir | Yours very truly | Charles Darwin August 3d. then 36 Grt. Marlbro’ St.—

1
Read 31 May 1837. A summary was nevertheless published in the Proceedings of the Geological Society 2 (1833–8): 552–4 (Collected papers 1: 46–9). See letter to William Lonsdale, [May? 1837].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-370,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-370