To the Geological Society of London 18 November [1840]

[12 Upper Gower Street]

The whole of M^r Chatfields communication on the earthquake at San Salvador is given in the published abstract¹

Charles Darwin November 18^th.

The President read an abstract of Frederick Chatfield’s dispatch, dated 10 October 1839 (Proceedings of the Geological Society 3 (1838–42): 179). Chatfield was Consul-General in Guatemala.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-580,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-580

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Recommends that Consul Chatfield’s communication on an earthquake in San Salvador [read 5 Feb 1840; Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1840): 179] not be published in Transactions.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-580
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Geological Society of London
Date: 18 Nov [1840]
Sent from: London, Upper Gower St, 12
Source of text: Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/35)
Physical description: 1p

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