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To Daniel Sharpe [1 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | [1 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1016 |
To Daniel Sharpe [4 November 1846]
Summary
Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017F |
