Who published a paper with the Geological Society of London on January 4th 1837 showing that the South American land mass was gradually rising?
Inception of Darwin's theory she later recalled Charles as being "simple, childlike, painstaking, effective". Unhappy with life in a "dirty odious London" he returned to Cambridge on 13 December then wrote his first paper, showing that the Chilean coast and the South American land-mass was rising slowly, and discussed his ideas with Lyell. To Lyell's delight, Darwin went further in balancing the rising continent with sinking mountains forming the basis of coral atolls. Darwin briefly returned to London to read his paper to the Geological Society on 4 January 1837. Despite Darwin's nerves about his début, the talk was so well received that he
Charles Darwin and a hippopotamus-sized rodent-like skull named "Toxodon" resembling a giant capybara. The armour fragments were actually from "Glyptodon", a huge armadillo-like creature as Darwin had initially thought. These extinct creatures were related to living species in South America. In mid-December, Darwin took lodgings in Cambridge to organise work on his collections and rewrite his "Journal". He wrote his first paper, showing that the South American landmass was slowly rising, and with Lyell's enthusiastic backing read it to the Geological Society of London on 4 January 1837. On the same day, he presented his mammal and bird specimens to the Zoological