RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Analysis (best worth). CUL-DAR39.211-212. 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
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Analysis (best worth
P 3052 (in large bottle) muriate of lime?
P 3048 (paper) gypsum or [anbydale] ⸮ any carbonate of soda
P 1633 P Saline encrustation. Port Desire
P 761 P (Tin) ─ B. Blanca
P 762 (?). salt Salina Chinquitos (??)
P 759 ─ salina Rio Negro. Whether sea-salt}
P 1227 P N. of Soda as quarried from Iquique
P 1264 salt with layer above at Arica ─ nature?
P 1312 P shell. S. Lorenzo falling into powder
P 1313 P do ─ fallen.─
P ⸮ any carbonate of soda
P ─ muriate of lime any salt?
P 763. Rio Negro ─ Sulp of Soda?
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946 Tin label salt from S. Cruz strata
Return specimens
W nitrate or muriate of Soda be first deposited? {Decomp: if salt & shells
(Take up Pat: sediment in Pocket from him to look at)
{Keep my paper w muriate or nitrate of soda be deposited first
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1264 ─ superficial covering of salt Arica
1313 ─ Lima (?)
761 ─ Bahia Blanca [crenating] roots
1143 ─ Cavern Huafo
760 ─ Rio Negro Sulp of soda going on surface
1227 ─ Iquique
762 ─ common salt ─ Bahia Blanca
781 ─ Port Desire
1954 (in paper ─ S. Cruz (?)
3052 Iquique (?)
759 Rio Negro Salt
804 Salt St. Julians
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Rio Negro
Sulphate of Magnesia
Potash or soda Bahia Blanca / no nitrate or carbonate
Sulphate of soda very little muriate shaking with
Rio Negro salt
760 In this there was much muriate of soda Sulphate of Magnesia
Sulphuric acid & magnesia
⸮ also sulph of soda?
Bahia Blanca) 761 [illeg] nitrate acid or carbon little muriate: chiefly sulphuric not magnesia ─ ∴ sulp of sosa:=
salt from Rio Negro pure? yet no magnesia or sulphuric acid.─
It is said in Malt Bres Sulp soda crystals in the salines in grains.─
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