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To W. D. Fox   [28 September 1841]

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Sends news of his house-hunting.

Envies WDF his discovery of Cheirotherium footprints.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [28 Sept 1841]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 62)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-609

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  • … Bibliography Buckland, William. 1836. Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to …

To Charles Lyell   [9 March 1841]

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Defends his theory [in "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137] against the view that the "roads" were formed by glacial action.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [9 Mar 1841]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.23)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-594

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  • … Louis Agassiz visited the area with William Buckland , and they concluded that a glacier …
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