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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    THE RED NOTEBOOK 63 124 Decemb 10. 1802. Earthquake at Demerara. The earthquakes seem to arise from some efforts in the land to lift itself higher & to grow upwards ; for the land is constantly pushing the sea ( which of course must retain same level) to a greater distance. — After¬ wards speaks of this phenomenon in connection with shooting upwards of the <(ground)> land in the W Indies.—p. 200. Bollingbroke voyage to the Demerary^^^ | 125 Earthquakes at St Helena. 1756. June 1780, Sept 21®^ 1817. — p 371. Webster Antarctic veg : Study Ulloa to see if Indian habitation above regions of vegetation.—[I can find nothing.Mem Carolines quotation from Templei'^i Urge the mineralogical difference of formations of S. America & Europe. — If great chain of Vole, had been in action during secondary period how diff. would the rocks have been. The red Sandstone of Andes fusible? | 126 no. mad dogs. Azores, although kept in numbers, p. 124. Webster^'^^ Consult W. Parish.& Azara.about dry season[^.] 1791. seen commonly bad over whole world. /f(Was it so in Sydney, consult history? Phillips 1826.27.28. grt. drought at Sydney, which caused Capt. Sturt expedition. — S Another one in 1816 ( ?). — | 127 M Owen's curious fact about Crust [word begun: Br...] in Brine.Springs. (Henslow) Speculate on neutral ground of 2 ostriches ; bigger one encroaches on smaller. —change not progressif(e> : produced at one blow, if one species altered ; (altered) Mem : my idea of Vole : islands, elevated, then peculiar plants created, if for such mere points; then any mountain, one is falsely less surprised at new creation for large. — Australias = if for vole. isP- then for any spot of land. = Yet new creation affected by Halo of neighbouring continent : as if any |