RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1.1840. Referee report on Clarke, Shower of ashes. GeolSoc-COM-P4.2.38. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Manuscript photographed by Caroline Lam. Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2011. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced by permission of the Geological Society of London and William Huxley Darwin. With thanks to Caroline Lam. Requests to reproduce these images should be directed to the Geological Society of London.

[38]

Clarke Rev. W.B.

Shewers of Ashes

Clarke Rev. W. B

Cape of G. Hope

Jan 22d 1840

I am of opinion that everything of importance in Mr Clarke's Paper "on a shower of ashes which fell on board the Roxburgh off the Cape de Verd Islands" is given in the abstract in the Proceedings & therefore that it need not be printed in the Transaction.

Charles Darwin

Clarke, William Branwhite. 1839. A notice of showers of ashes which fell on board the Roxburgh, at sea, off the Cape de Verd islands, February, 1839. [Read 6 November] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 (1838-42): 145-6.

the underlined text is not in Darwin's hand.

Return to homepage

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

File last updated 25 September, 2022