To the Geological Society of London 18 November [1840]
[12 Upper Gower Street]
The whole of Mr Chatfields communication on the earthquake at San Salvador is given in the published abstract1
Charles Darwin November 18th.
Footnotes
The President read an abstract of Frederick Chatfield’s dispatch, dated 10 October 1839 (Proceedings of the Geological Society 3 (1838–42): 179). Chatfield was Consul-General in Guatemala.
Summary
Recommends that Consul Chatfield’s communication on an earthquake in San Salvador [read 5 Feb 1840; Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1840): 179] not be published in Transactions.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-580
- 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/4/2/35)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 580,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-580.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
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