To Daniel Mackintosh 16 October 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Oct 16. 79
Dear Sir,
You are quite welcome to show my letter to the secretaries, as it gives my deliberate conviction; but I beg you to say that it was written without the least notion that any one would see it except yourself, so probably it is badly expressed.1 It has pleased me much that my old paper should have stimulated you to such excellent work.2 If in any future papers you use the expression of ‘overshot loads’, I think you ought to explain your meaning rather more fully, for I failed to feel sure about it.3
I remain, dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Mackintosh, Daniel. 1879. Results of a systematic survey, in 1878, of the directions and limits of dispersion, mode of occurrence, and relation to drift-deposits of the erratic blocks or boulders of the West of England and east of Wales, including a revision of many years’ previous observations. [Read 26 March 1879.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35: 425–55.
Summary
DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].
Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12259
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Daniel Mackintosh
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12259,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12259.xml