RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Geological specimens and descriptions. CUL-DAR39.148. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. 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.


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92 2742 Pale purple very compact fine grained lightly Calc: Sandstone

93 743 white gypsum & purplish impure non-calc Aluminous do in layers contorted

94 744 Gypsum penetrating Characters of 609 & 623

95 745 do like (609)

96 746 Pure soft gypsum

97 747 Red-purple base with numerous true Cry of white Felds

98 748 Red fine Conglomerate quartzose with white patches which appear owing to a sort of crystall gneiss; one little white patch is transversed by hairs of the red basis.—

99 749 Dull whitish very compact rather hardish & pearly non cryst. Calc-aluminous rock: numerous fractures

100 750 101 751 White cryst Limestone num By impress of shell: specks of Bitumen?

102 752 oyster shell in do

102 753 Blueish compact [amg] fracture Aluminous Limestone

103 754 Bromahand-calcareous fine grained Sandstone ferruginous veins

104 755 Dull purple fine grained calc-sandstone

105 756 Confined mass of white crys Feld contains more perfect foliated cryst & specks of Chlorite?

757. Green base with numerous plates of white Cry. Feld & Crys with agate & green little balls— common. West stops of Cumbra pass.—

758 Granitic base with metallic veins Sand Pedro de Nolasko

759 Balls produced by dripping of Hot Spring Inca Bridge

760. Silicified wood from the wood

762 1 Small shells from 2d station: — Valparaiso

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67. 717 Red pseudo. Brecia crystalline rock do not know nature

68 718 Nature between 653-654 — non calc.—

69 719 numerous Cr of F & Q in a sparing red basis

70 720 glassy harsh-coarse-grained. Clay Slate

71 721 Layers & crystals of feldspar in purple Clay-stone base

72 722 White earth Feld base with patch of more cryst pinkish Feld.—

73 723 apparently a greyish Feldspathic rock granular

74 724 75 725} Salmon-coloured feld rock-compact: with reddish small crystals of feldspar

76 726 Dark bluish rock porph with [acialar] glassy of Feld & olivine?

77 727 Greenish white earthy, rather little friable aluminous substance with broken extraneous particles.—

78 728+ Ore of metal curious what is it?

79 729 [illeg] hard.—

80 730 Like gold ore from Hornillos

81 731 Red basis Porph with Cry quartz & Feldspar & bits of a greenstone?—

82 732 Grey semi=crystall Feld rock with Cement or Conglom: structure

83 733 Feldspath rock? tinged blackish with Hornblende?

84 734 rock altered with metallic ferruginous veins

85 735 yellow fine grained Limestone: effervesces slowly Magnesia??—

86 736 Pale Lilac base with numerous crys of Feld white & black mica

87 737 {Greyish purple stone composed of little Cry specks of white Carb of Lime & earthy natural mem: on stone of Copiapo!!! & red crystal & Amgd with Cry. Carb of Lime

88 738 Coarse hard red Conglom cement Calcareous

89 739 white Cry. Feld base & little soft ferrug patch with numer Crys of white Feldspar & scales of black mica.

90 740 Dull Purplish calcareous Crystall aspect sandstone fine-grained

741. Basis like (737) with white Calc specks on Amyg with red Crystals.


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