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CUL-DAR1.(0-73)
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1846
Northern Chile (last chapter of `Geological observations on South America')
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Mr Fletcher, your first page, will be. p. 211, c) Ch. 8 VIII Northern Chile - Conclusion Section from Illapel to Combarbala; Gypseous formation with silicified wood — Panuncillo — Coquimbo; mines of Arqueros; section up valley; fossils — Guasco, fossils of — Copiapo, section up valley; Las Amolanas, Silicified wood, conglomerates, nature of former land, fossils, thickness of strata, great subsidence — Valley of Despoblado, fossils, tufaceous deposit, complicated dislocations of — Relations
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CUL-DAR185.74
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Dust `Geological Society Journal' 2: 26-30 (early draft, brown ink)
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(A) An account of the fine dust, which has often fallen s several times on vessels, off the N. W coast of Africa. by Charles Darwin M.A. F.R.S (Used) (B) Alter The furthest point southward is which I have met with recorded (is) by Mr Burnett*(1) in Lat 4°. 20' N: Northward, according to Capt. Hayward in 2.5.6' (Mr Fletcher Please do not leave any margin) Alter all the [Margins] (area will be greater.) (Used) [74(ii
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CUL-DAR185.74
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[1845]
Dust `Geological Society Journal' 2: 26-30 (early draft, brown ink)
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(5 has been blown during five months in the year, to great distances over the Atlantic, I think we cannot can hardly doubt that here we see a powerful agency the wind is here here a powerful agent in the formation of a widely extended deposit; this deposit, it appears from the observations of Prof. Ehrenberg, will consist in great part of Infusoria, unmingled free, I may add, over along a wide extent great space of arid coast, from the alluvial matter of any river.) (N.B. Mr Fletcher Please
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (4 harmattan blows from the NE ENE, accompanied by tornados, the dust is blown far out, is raised on high, are so that stars all other objects within 30° degrees of the horizon are hidden. (From the several recorded accounts,* (6) it appears that the quantity of dust which falls on vessels in the open Atlantic is considerable, that the atmosphere is often rendered quite hazy; but nearer to the African coast the quantity is still more considerable
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F1555
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species, a sketch written in 1842. Cambridge: University Press.
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Foundations. I have found additional evidence in favour of 1842 in a sentence written on the back of the Table of Contents of the 1844 MS. not the copied version but the original in my father's writing: This was written and enlarged from a sketch in 37 pages2 in Pencil (the latter written in summer of 1842 at Maer and Shrewsbury) in beginning of 1844, and finished it sic in July; and finally corrected the copy by Mr Fletcher in the last week in September. On the whole it is impossible to doubt
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F1556
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.
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. I have found additional evidence in favour of 1842 in a sentence written on the back of the Table of Contents of the 1844 MS.—not the copied version but the original in my father's writing: This was written and enlarged from a sketch in 37 pages2 in Pencil (the latter written in summer of 1842 at Maer and Shrewsbury) in beginning of 1844, and finished it sic in July; and finally corrected the copy by Mr Fletcher in the last week in September. On the whole it is impossible to doubt that 1842 is
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F1573
Periodical contribution:
de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Darwin's journal. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (1): 1-21.
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Southampton, on the 12th to Portsmouth coast of Isle of Wight, on 13th to Winchester S. Cross, on 14th Netley Abbey Southampton Common. 17th Home. September 22d. With Em Susan to Knole Park.11 1847. Feb. 19th to Shrewsbury March 5th Home June 22nd to Brit. Assocn at Oxford; Blenheim, Nuneham; Dropmore, Burn- 1 Mr. Fletcher: unidentified. later Darwin employed Ebenezer Norman, appointed schoolmaster in the village of Downe in 1854, to copy manuscripts for him. 2 Charles Darwin: An Account of the fine
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F1817
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Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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the second version of 1844 (DAR 7). Following the death of Emma in 1896, the manuscripts of the original sketches of 1842 and 1844 were found in a cupboard under the staircase at Down House. Supplementing the manuscript versions Darwin, plagued by ill-health and fearing premature death, had a fair copy (DAR 113) made in 1844 by Mr Fletcher, the Downe schoolmaster, which was interleaved for additions and corrections. This copy was returned to Darwin in September, 1844 and corrected by him against
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