Darwin, C. R. to Lonsdale, William
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Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD's paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.
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My dear Sir
I send you the abstract; the author is not to be trusted with his own work, instead of
making it shorter, it will be a paragraph longer than
D
When you forward the sections of the Coral islands to M
Yours most truly | C. Darwin
36 Grt. Marlbro' St.
Monday Morning.—
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- f1 383a.f1
Presumably Royle had prepared an abstract of CD's paper ‘On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans’ (Collected papers 1: 46–9), which CD read and amended. - +
- f2 383a.f2
George Bellas Greenough who was on the Council of the Geological Society at this time. - +
- f3 383a.f3
Probably sections prepared for Journal and remarks.