To the Geological Society of London 22 January 1840

Jan 22^d. 1840

I am of opinion that everything of importance, in M^r Clarke’s¹ Paper “on a shower of ashes which fell on board the Roxburgh off the Cape de Verd Islands” is given in the abstract in the Proceedings,² & therefore that it need not be printed in the Transactions

Charles Darwin

William Branwhite Clarke.

Clarke 1839.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-551,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-551

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W. B. Clarke’s paper on ashes falling at sea off Cape Verde Islands [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 145–6] need not be published in Transactions.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-551
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Geological Society of London
Date: 22 Jan 1840
Sent from: London, Upper Gower St, 12
Source of text: Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/38)
Physical description: 1p

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