To W. E. Darwin [after 20 November 1876]1
My dear. W.—
You will remember about the upright pebbles & my notion of interstratified gravel & frozen snow during the Glacial periods.— Geikie sent me his Grt. Ice Age, & I wrote him a very long letter explaining my views, & he says in answer he has thought much about it & thinks the view very feasable, instead of astounding floods all over the country.2
He is going to communicate my notion to Mr Skertchly,3 of the Geolog. Survey who is now at work on allied subjects in the Eastern counties. So that if the notion is worth anything it is safe.
The more I think of it the more probable the explanation seems of a most perplexing problem.
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Geikie, James. 1877. The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man. 2d edition. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co.
Summary
Has written of his idea [on the formation of the gravels near Southampton] to James Geikie, who thought it very feasible.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10486
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 148
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10486,” accessed on 27 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10486.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
