RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1846]. Draft of An account of the fine dust which often falls on vessels in the Atlantic ocean, folio 7. CUL-DAR188.7. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2023. RN1
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The draft is partly in the hand of Joseph Fletcher, Darwin's copyist. See also Darwin, [1846]. Draft of An account of the fine dust which often falls on vessels in the Atlantic ocean, folios 1-5. CUL-DAR185.74(i-vi).
Darwin, C. R. 1846. An account of the fine dust which often falls on vessels in the Atlantic ocean. [Read 4 June 1845.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 2: 26-30. F1672.
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*(1) Nautical magazine May 1839. The dust fell from the 9th to the 13th of Feb. 1839, whilst sailing from (Lat. 10° N. Long. 29° 59') to (Lat. 2° 56' N. Long 26° 30' W).
*(2) Geographical Journal, vol. VI. p. 296. "Survey of some of the Canary Isd. & part of the coast of Africa, by Lieut. W. Arlett, R.N."
*(3) Edinburgh New Phil. Journal, vol. 32. p. 134. An The account is taken from Berghaus' Almanack of the the dust which fell on the Princess Louisa during two days on Jan. 14 & 15, 1839, where (Lat. 24° 20' N. Long. Long 26° 42' W.) and (Lat. 23° 05' N. & Long. 28° 18') and again in 1840 from the 6 to the 9th of May, whilst between (Lat. 10° 29' N. Long. 32° 19' W.) and (Lat. 16° 44' N. Long. 36° 37'). During the voyage of a vessel of the same name, in which Dr. Meyen was a passenger (Reise um Erde, Th. I. s. 54) on the 27th of October 1830, the sails were observed to be stained by a powder, which Dr. Meyen considered to be a minute cryptogamic plant: the date would lead me to believe that in this case the phænomenon was of a quite different nature from that of the dust described in this Paper.
*(4) Nautical Magazine 1838 p. 824.
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