To Archibald Geikie 20 December [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
Dec. 20th
My dear Sir
I hope that you will excuse me for troubling you, & for beginning my note in so familiar a manner; but your name has been so long & well known to me that I cannot help feeling as if I personally knew you.— Prof. Ramsay informs me that you have published some remarks on the denudation of flat or nearly flat surfaces, & I want much read them, as I have lately been making a few observations which I think throw some little light on this subject.2
Will you be so kind as to give me a reference; or if you could lend me a copy of your paper, I will promise to return it in under a week’s time.—3
I sincerely congratulate the students at Edinburgh at having secured your services as Professor of Geology.—4 Pray believe me, Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Geikie, Archibald. 1868b. On modern denudation. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow 3: 153–90.
Summary
Asks to borrow AG’s paper on denudation of flat or nearly flat surfaces ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. of Glasgow 3: 153-90]. CD has recently been making some observations he thinks throw a little light on the subject.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8112
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Archibald Geikie
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.1425/71)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8112,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8112.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19