The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The red notebook of Charles Darwin: 13 and Notebook A: Geology (1837-1839): 97. CUL-DAR42.199. 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).

See: Herbert, Sandra. ed. 1980. The red notebook of Charles Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 7 (24 April): 1-164.

Curvature of hill; states could discover no shells; nothing said about K. Georges Sound

The idea of the water at Canqueres coming from the [illeg] Cordillera & flowing

Henslow has deposited specimens from Anglesea in Geolog. Soc. if numbered compare them with my rock. when writing on Falkland Islds

p. 94 Von Buch's Travels account of Norway chain being broken through like that near - Obstruction Sound in S. America

The very general absence of fragments & pebbles in mica slate & gneiss, can only (see supra p 94) be accounted for by great molecular attraction of every atom in rock

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)