The red notebook of Charles Darwin / edited, with an introduction and notes by Sandra Herbert.

  • Charles Darwin
Date:
1980
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Credit: The red notebook of Charles Darwin / edited, with an introduction and notes by Sandra Herbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    48 SANDRA HERBERT 65e pine cut out at top of page] towns driving by the want of water. — I believe in all flat countries, years of drought are common. — M'' Lyell has mentioned the drifting of carcases putrid. In Rio paper, when discussing probable rise of land; Mention M. Gay's fact about shells Hibernation of fresh water Shells, multitudes. — The question of shell's concretions, living only in that spot & being cause of concretion, or being only preserved in that part, having lived over whole bottom is important; because in this latter case we cannot judge whether such fossils lived in groups or not. | 66e Ferruginous veins of this figure in sandstone: evidently depend on a concretionary contraction : the fact is in alliance with those balls at Chiloe full of sand. — the ^scale) ¿quantity of ironj being there in excess. — If veins are secretionary, so are all those plates in Australia. New Red Sandstone, at Bahia in modern sandstone, a circle, > had in its middle a short /ffissurej vein terminated each way, which little vein was like the rest of these thin veins which project outwards. — | 67e In Patagonia, the blending of pebbles & the appearance of travelling may be owing to successive transportal from prevailing swell, (as Shingle travels on the Chesil bank. V. De la Beche).^^ Ask Capt. F. ; R;^^ how the swell, generally & during gales would tend to travel on a central line of Patagonia. [NB. Lyell P. 211 Vol III. talks of line of cliff marking a pausej^^ When mentioning pumice of Bahia Blanca, mention black scoria- ceous rocks of R Chupat. & fall of Ashes of Falkner, S how far is the distance?—| 68e Fossil bones black as if from peat. — yet cetaceous bones so likewise [of miocene periodj. — Mem Bahia blanca P. 204 Vol III. Lyell 90 Owing to [openj faults in mountains: to elevated strata in eocene lakes of France, & unequal action of Earthquakes [on Chili & delta of IndusJ. my belief in submarine tilting alone, must be modified, f Moreover, the Volcanos from sea there burst out, after rise from sea : ^As did^ as did those aerial Volcanos in GermanyJ