To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
From Robert Chambers 5 October 1847
Summary
Supposition that glaciers made Glen Roy is a dream. Has received three letters from CD on river terraces. Reports on trip to terraces at Belleville. Comparison with Glen Roy.
| Author: | Robert Chambers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1124 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
