SummaryRecommends CD's paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power". TranscriptionReport on Mr Darwyns Paper on the formation of Mould. I consider the above paper & note appended to it, to be sound in all its views, excepting that which refers the origin of Chalk, to the digestive powers of animals that had fed on corallines I should strongly recommend its publication in the Transactions as establishing a new & important theory to explain Phenomena of universal occurrence on the surface of the Earth—in fact a new Geological Power— Altho nearly the whole paper has been printed in the abstract of Proceedings I think the subject of sufficient importance to be printed in the Transactions, with a lithograph of the drawing annexed to it—f1 I wd recommend that the Author be advised to withdraw the passage relating to the origin of Chalk—as introducing very disputable matter into a paper that is otherwise unexceptionable, & which if established, would be well deserving to form the Subject of a separate Communicationf2 Wm Buckland March 9. 1838 I wd advise the author to be requested to add a Section of the 2 very decisive Cases mentioned in his appendix— they might all vy. well be contained in one quarto plate Footnotes
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Metadata |
Calendar No. |
404 |
From |
Buckland, William |
unstated (place) |
To |
Geological Society of London |
Description |
ALS 2pp |
Provenance |
Geological Society P4/2 |
Citation |
Correspondence 2: 76 |
Name References |
Darwin, C. R. |
Index Links |
mould (geological) |
Collected papers (it) |
Transactions (it) |
geology (scientific) |
positive self-criticism (scientific) |
reception of Darwinism (scientific) |
theory (including philosophy) (scientific) |
Log No. |
9292a |