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From Edward Forbes   [September 1846]

Dear Darwin

I return you a proof of the Fossil-Descriptions corrected.1 As D’Orbigny gave the names, had not “E. Forbes” better be left out after each species—the general heading sufficing—whilst Sowerby’s name would remain attached to his descriptions2 —they to be placed within inverted commas.

As I have been absent from town for the last 4 days, working my

Footnotes

‘Descriptions of Secondary fossil shells from South America’, appendix, South America, pp. 265–8. Eleven species are described.
George Brettingham Sowerby described sixty-one Tertiary fossil shells in his part of the appendix, and two of the Secondary fossil shells in Forbes’s.

Bibliography

South America: Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846.

Summary

Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-995
From
Edward Forbes
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
DAR 43.1: 46
Physical description
inc

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 995,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-995.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3

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