RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 2.1842. 'Talking with Bunbury & Lonsdale'. CUL-DAR205.9.146. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by John van Wyhe 11.2010. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].
[146]
Jan Feb. 1842
Talking with Bunbury & Lonsdale — They seemed to consider that it was wonderful shells were not preserved at bottom of New Red Sandstone — if killed by oxide of iron — Good God every generation preserved — do all the shells which have lived during last 5000 years on British shores — & during [illeg] denudation for be preserved = this is the root of innumerable errors =
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