From W. S. Dallas 23 January 1879
Geological Society, Somerset House.
Jan. 23. 1879
My dear Sir
I have looked & enquired for the paper in the Quarterly Journal referred to by you but cannot find it.—1 Duncan thought it must be in a paper by Tylor on changes of Sea levels but I find nothing on the subject of Coral islands.—2 Semper’s reference to the matter is most likely in his book on the Philippine Islands, but I cannot say positively as I am not acquainted with the book—3 Or he may have published a paper in the Senckenbergische Berichte,4 or in Wiegmann’s Archiv,5 but I do not remember such a paper in those numbers which I have seen,— or possibly in the Journal des Museum Godeffroy.—6 I am very sorry that I can give you no more satisfaction, but if you are still in difficulty I will do what I can in searching for your desiderata as soon as this month is fairly out.—
With kind regards | Believe me | Yours very truly | W. S. Dallas.
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Semper, Carl. 1863. Reisebericht. Briefliche Mittheilung an A. Kölliker. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 13: 558–69.
Semper, Carl. 1869. Die Philippinen und ihre Bewohner. Sechs Skizzen. Nach einem im Frankfurter geographischen Verein 1868 gehaltenen Cyclus von Vorträgen. Würzburg: A. Stuber’s Buchhandlung.
Tylor, Alfred. 1852. On changes of the sea level effected by existing physical causes during stated periods of time. Abstract. [Read 15 December 1852.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 9 (1853): 47–9.
Tylor, Alfred. 1853. On changes of the sea level effected by existing physical causes during stated periods of time. Philosophical Magazine 4th ser. 5: 258–81.
Summary
Suggests references that might answer CD’s [unidentified] request for information about coral islands.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11843
- From
- William Sweetland Dallas
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Geological Society
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 28
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11843,” accessed on 12 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11843.xml