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To W. H. Smyth 7 August [1839]
Summary
Asks for details of Smyth’s Island discovered by WHS – particularly whether the islets form a ring surrounding a lagoon. [See Coral reefs, p. 158].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Smyth |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-530 |
To William Shoberl 16 August [1839]
Summary
Gives his opinion of a MS on geology. It is not really a scientific work. It might sell well, but CD’s opinion on success of sale is worthless.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-531 |
From Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann 23 August 1839
Summary
Thanks CD for his Journal of researches, "one of the best scientific travelworks of this time", which CFAH intends to translate into German.
| Author: | Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-532 |
From J. G. Malcolmson 31 August 1839
Summary
Observations on the geology of Arabia.
| Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-533 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hartmann, C. F. A. | (1) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Shoberl, William | (1) |
| Smyth, W. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hartmann, C. F. A. | (1) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (1) |
| Shoberl, William | (1) |
| Smyth, W. H. | (1) |
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