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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