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To Daniel Sharpe   [1 November 1846]

Summary

Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Sharpe
Date:  [1 Nov 1846]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1016