RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The red notebook of Charles Darwin: 111, 147. CUL-DAR42.44. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: First transcribed by Sandra Herbert (1980), additions by van Wyhe 2.2011. Text prepared by Christine Chua. 1.2022. RN8

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of Sandra Herbert, The Natural History Museum, English Heritage (Down House Collection) and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).

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

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J Hall Vol VI. p 173 (Ed. Transact) has seen clay stuff enough for potters to use in which great knife formed crystals of ice were formed (like my gypsum case) shows power of segregation & has heated angular fragments of rock, which returned thus angles sharp – yet with character completely altered, & a crystalline structure superinduced

Lyell on Sweden p. 5 & 7 richest shale from decomposed muscles.

Smith of Jordanhill has seen same thing

 

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When I come to treat of the age of the Pampas Deposit: I may properly remark on the superiorly of Lyell's classification to that of Phillips as given p. 13 Vol II Lardner's Treatise

Phillips in Lardner Vol II p 73: some remarks on veins:

Phillips in Lardner Vol II p 80 – some remarks on dikes applicable to Cordillera

Phillips in Lardner Vol II p 81 & 83 some remarks on thinness of coast as implied by meeting with granite everywhere

Phillips in Lardner Vol II p 125 good discussion on mineral veins

p 125 to 129 & p. 135 – 160 & 162

[Phillips, John. 1839. The cabinet Cyclopædia. Conducted by Rev. Dionysius Lardner, etc. Treatise on geology. Vol. II. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, John Taylor, and A. Spottiswoode.]


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