From Thomas Francis Jamieson 24 March 1862
Summary
Writes with an important fact about the parallel roads of Glen Roy. The watershed at Makoul corresponds with the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines. Over a stretch of 20 miles from east to west the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines is near parallel with the present sea level.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1862 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2834–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3483F |
To T. F. Jamieson 27 March [1862]
Summary
Will forward TFJ’s letter to Charles Lyell.
Gives up the marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] for ‘ever & ever’, but ‘with a groan’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | McConnochie 1901, p. 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3487G |
From T. F. Jamieson to Charles Lyell 17 October 1862
Summary
TFJ returns CD’s "too flattering" letter concerning Glen Roy [see 3761]. Further discussion of [A. C.] Ramsay’s, [J. D.] Hooker’s, and CL’s arguments about the formation of glacial lakes.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2859–60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3757F |
To T. F. Jamieson 21 November 1862
Summary
CD expresses his high opinion of TFJ’s scientific qualifications for lecturing on agriculture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.5406:171–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3818 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
Addressee
| Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Jamieson, T. F. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
