To James Croll 9 August 1877
Down, Beckenham, | Kent
Aug. 9, 1877.
My dear Sir,
I am much obliged for your essay which I have read with the greatest interest.1 With respect to the geological part, I have long wished to see the evidence collected on the time required for denudation, and you have done it admirably.2 I wish some one would in a like spirit compare the thickness of sedimentary rocks with the quickest estimated rate of deposition by a large river, and other such evidence. Your main argument with respect to the sun seems to me very striking.3
My son George desires me to thank you for his copy and to say how much he has been interested by it.4
I remain, my dear Sir, | Yours very faithfully, | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Croll, James. 1877. On the probable origin and age of the sun. Quarterly Journal of Science n.s. 7: 307–26
Summary
Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11097
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Croll
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 356
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11097,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11097.xml