Darwin Correspondence Project

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I am of opinion that everything of importance in “M^r Newbolds Paper on Rock Basins in the bed of the Toombuddra”^f1 in “M^r J. Phillips three communications on some caves, on the discovery of an ancient causeway with Elephants bones beneath it, and on pumice found in sinking a well,”^f2 & in “M^r Consul Hunts Report on the destruction of Praya in the Azores by an earthquake,”^f3 is fully given in the Proceedings, and therefore that these communications need not be printed in the Transactions

Charles Darwin
October 4^th. 1842

Footnotes

f1

Newbold 1842.

f2

Phillips 1842. This is not John Phillips, the Yorkshire geologist, but possibly an employee of John Taylor, Treasurer of the Geological Society, who had a mining company in Mexico and who communicated Phillips’ paper to the Society.

f3

Hunt 1841.