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F1583e Periodical contribution: Herbert, S. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164. Text Image PDF

Sowerby is of [the] opinion that some of the species are identical. For a complete description of one group of the shells see John Morris and Daniel Sharpe, 'Description of Eight Species of Brachiopodous Shells from the Pal ozoic Rocks of the Falkland Islands, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol. 2 (1846), pp. 274-278: George Brettingham Sowerby (note 178) produced the two plates. The Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural [page] 122 SANDRA HERBER

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EH88202575 Note: 1839--1882 Charles Darwin's Address Book. Text Image

: Margarets board wages began and 14 May: Margaret Johnson. 109s or 12-10 Mallet R. Esq. 98 Chapel St. Dublin Robert Mallet (1810-1881), civil engineer and seismologist. Mr Mrs Murchison 2 Eccleston St Belgrave Sq called on us Mar. 9. Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), geologist and Charlotte Hugonin Murchison. Rookmaaker 2010. M'cAndrew Parliament St. Liverpool.— Robert McAndrew (1802-1873), Liverpool merchant and naturalist. Darwin also spelled 'MacAndrew'. Morris John 29 High St. Kensington John

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F3415 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1974. [Letters to Robert Fitch, 1849-51]. In Trenn, Thaddeus J., Charles Darwin, fossil cirripedes, and Robert Fitch: presenting sixteen hitherto unpublished Darwin letters of 1849-1851. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118: 471-91. Text

specimen be not very heavy, registered by Post wd be the safest way, I wd take the liberty of returning you the Postage— If by parcel, the direction shd be exactly as follows C. Darwin Esq care of G. Snow Nag's Head Borough London. I hope that you will forgive my having taken the liberty to ask so great a favour. I beg to remain Dear Sir Your faithful servant Charles Darwin Would you inform me if you know, from what part of the Chalk your specimen came? Fitch replied during December that he

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F1942 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. et al. 1858. Memorial of the promoters and cultivators of science on the subject of the proposed severance from the British Museum of its natural history collections, addressed to Her Majesty's Government. House of Commons Papers; Accounts and Papers (XXXIII.499) 456 (23 July): 1-5. Text Image PDF

. Gaskoin, F.L.S. D. W. Mitchell, Secretary to the Zoological Society of London, F.L.S., c. c. c. Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., Fellow of Christ Church College, Oxford. George Bush, F.R.S., F.R.C.S.E, c. W. Macdonald, M.D. E. W. H. Holdsworth, F.L.S., F.Z.S. John J. Bennett, F.R.S.L.S. John Percy, M.D., F.R.S. M. Henderson, M.D., F.R.S. John Carrick Moore, M.A., F.R.S. John Gould, F.R.S. Robert Stephenson, M.P., F.R.S. George Peacock, Dean of Ely, F.R.S. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., c. J. F. W. Herschel, M

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A589 Book: Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing. Text PDF

layers several centimetres in thickness. They are not always easy to find because the strong cleavage of the shales cuts across the bedding planes, a fact upon which Darwin commented. Specimens are most easily collected where fragments of sandstone weather out and fall away from the exposures along the shore. The Fox Bay Beds, as they are now called, are today assigned to the Devonian.3 Many fossils were collected by Darwin from the Port Louis site and were described by John Morris and Daniel

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A589 Book: Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing. Text PDF

, and envisaging a warm climate in the Falklands area, Darwin's speculations were far ahead of his time. The fossils were eventually handed over to two Geological Society colleagues John Morris and Daniel Sharpe. On the basis of Darwin's Falklands specimens, these gentlemen described eight new species of brachiopod (eg Chonetes Falklandica and Spirifer antarcticus), as well as identifying an Orbicula, an Avicula, some stem fragments of a crinoid (or sea lily), and finding some pieces of an

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F3705 Book: Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing. Text

layers several centimetres in thickness. They are not always easy to find because the strong cleavage of the shales cuts across the bedding planes, a fact upon which Darwin commented. Specimens are most easily collected where fragments of sandstone weather out and fall away from the exposures along the shore. The Fox Bay Beds, as they are now called, are today assigned to the Devonian.3 Many fossils were collected by Darwin from the Port Louis site and were described by John Morris and Daniel

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F3705 Book: Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Darwin's desolate islands: A naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834. Chippenham: Picton Publishing. Text

, and envisaging a warm climate in the Falklands area, Darwin's speculations were far ahead of his time. The fossils were eventually handed over to two Geological Society colleagues John Morris and Daniel Sharpe. On the basis of Darwin's Falklands specimens, these gentlemen described eight new species of brachiopod (eg Chonetes Falklandica and Spirifer antarcticus), as well as identifying an Orbicula, an Avicula, some stem fragments of a crinoid (or sea lily), and finding some pieces of an