To William Lonsdale [15 May 1838]
My dear Lonsdale
I return my paper.—1 I have put a few pencil notes on the margin, which will explain to the referee, how much I intend modifying certain portions.— The whole I find requires a good deal of clarifying & polishing.
I returned from Cambridge last night.— I found Sedgwick very well & in high spirits, & therefore the sooner my paper goes to him the better.—
I have been looking over parts of Hopkin’s paper.2 I find in the latter part he refers to the diagram (No. 1. of mine)3 as a really possible section of a mountain chain, which, after what you pointed out to me, appears to me, clearly to be an inaccuracy on his part, although not of essential consequence. I shall get myself into a dilemma, with these sections, if I do not take good care.
I wish it was not too late to modify the title ⟨of⟩ the paper, as I have put it in pencil but that, I suppose, is altogether impossible.—4
Yours most truly | Chas. Darwin Tuesday Morning
36 Grt. Marlbro’ Stt.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Hopkins, William. 1835. Researches in physical geology. [Read 4 May 1835.] Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 6 (1836–8): 1–84.
Hopkins, William. 1836. An abstract of a memoir on physical geology; with a further exposition of certain points connected with the subject. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 8: 227–36, 272–81, 357–66.
Summary
Returns his paper for publication ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-412
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Lonsdale
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 412,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-412.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2