RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Trimmer, On the diluvial or northern drift of the eastern and western sides of the Cambrian chain, etc., 1838. CUL-DAR5.B85. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. 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-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.

Trimmer, Joshua. 1838. On the diluvial or northern drift of the eastern and western sides of the Cambrian chain, etc. Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin 1: 286-312; 335-368.


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Two excellent Papers by Trimmer on Diluvium. – no lithodorni in ice-sea. stratified often covers in Wales unstratified - I cannot doubt deeply floating icebergs --- in Scotland Lyell often allude to this so in Wales – insists on absence of whole shells – fragments probably transported in shore ice.


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