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From Edward Forbes [25 February 1846]
Summary
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-956 |
From Edward Forbes [7 August 1846]
Summary
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-989 |
From Edward Forbes [September 1846]
Summary
Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-995 |
