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DARWIN (CHARLES, 1809-1882).

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED.

4 pp., 8vo. Farnborough, Kent, December 19th.

[unrecorded letter?]

An interesting and instructive letter on "upraised beaches," mentioning several examples (particularly the "Chesil Beach"), and quoting certain reference Books.

"The term you employ is not used by geologists of upraised beaches, the one best known is the S. Coast of Devonshire.. . An engineer I think Palmer has described. . . in a very able article the movement of the pebbles along whole S. Coast of England. . .." Etc.

[See Palmer, Henry. 1834. Observations of the motion of shingle beaches. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 124: 567-576. Darwin's abstract in CUL-DAR42.165. Darwin cited Palmer 1834 in South America, p. 24.]