To the Geological Society of London 22 January 1840
Jan 22d. 1840
I am of opinion that everything of importance, in Mr Clarke’s1 Paper “on a shower of ashes which fell on board the Roxburgh off the Cape de Verd Islands” is given in the abstract in the Proceedings,2 & therefore that it need not be printed in the Transactions
Charles Darwin
Bibliography
Clarke, William Branwhite. 1839. A notice of showers of ashes which fell on board the Roxburgh, at sea, off the Cape de Verd islands, February, 1839. [Read 6 November 1839.] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 (1838–42): 145–6.
Summary
W. B. Clarke’s paper on ashes falling at sea off Cape Verde Islands [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 145–6] need not be published in Transactions.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-551
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Geological Society of London
- Sent from
- London, Upper Gower St, 12
- Source of text
- Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/38)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 551,” accessed on 22 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-551.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
