RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Mr Weaver MSS in Geological Society observed in the soil a bed of broken shells of the common Oyster. CUL-DAR42.117. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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. The volume CUL-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).


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Mr Weaver MSS in Geological Society observed in the soil a bed of broken shells of the common Oyster, at an elevation of perhaps thirty feet above the level of the sea = same shell dredged up in neighbouring sea =

= elevated shells found in many parts of district of Tampico = 22° North.

also collection of shells.

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