RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1838-1839]. Notebook A excised pages 39e-40e. CUL-DAR42.116. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).
Notebook A: Geology. Text & image CUL-DAR127
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The officers of the Bonite. French discovery ship, found clear proofs of shells & waterworn rocks at Cobija. At Iquique of elevation to amount of 30 ft. — Mr Bollaert (at Roy. Institut) talks of quantities of shells at Iquique.
Ceylon. Band of Volcanic action in Iceland parellel to Greenland: Mem. ؟Greenland subsiding.)
Von Buch Canary Isd. p. 351. NB. Mackenzie talks of gravel on basalt of Heckla —
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All the Azores Isl d . Von Buch p 359 stretched out NE & SW. — Von Buch. Can. Ile p. 406. List of Volcanos Salomon Isl d, — New Britain — &c &c In Ascension for centuries afterwards it might be percieved on which side craters were low — ؟ applicable to Auvergne???
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