To the Scotsman [after 20 September 1847]
Summary
Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | The Scotsman |
| Date: | [after 20 Sept 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: B1–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1121 |
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- … Charles Maclaren , who was particularly interested in geology and had earlier corresponded with CD (see Correspondence vol. 2), which is perhaps the reason why CD chose to send his letter to the Scotsman . Milne 1847b . ‘Observations on the parallel roads of Glen Roy’ , Collected papers 1: 87–137. Glen Glaster ( Milne 1847b , p. 4; 1849, p. 398). ‘Notes on the effects produced by the ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire’ , Collected papers 1: 163–71, was originally published in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 21 (1842): …
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