To T. M. Reade 8 April 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
April 8th 1878
My dear Sir
I have been very glad to read your essay, & am much obliged to you for sending me the Journal & for promising me a separate copy.—1 The Journal is returned by the same post. I think that I have before said how important it seems to me that the notion about the small antiquity of the earth, now so commonly prevailing beyond the pale of working geologists, should be upset.—
Believe me | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Reade, Thomas Mellard. 1878. The age of the world as viewed by the geologist and the mathematician. Geological Magazine n.s. decade 2 vol. 5: 145–54.
Summary
It is important that notion of "small antiquity" of the earth be upset.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11465
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Mellard Reade
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.5)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11465,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11465.xml
