To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 29 April [1863]
Summary
Interested in ACR’s Presidential Address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): xxix–lii] on the breaks in succession (of formations). Hopes ACR will provide a diagram of breaks, with the percentage of fossils that "pass upwards", i.e., continue to appear.
Horrified at Huxley’s geology.
Wishes ACR would discuss "creeps".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 1 (EH 88205974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4131 |
To A. C. Ramsay 5 September [1862]
Summary
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3714 |
To A. C. Ramsay 17 June 1880
Summary
Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 17 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12638 |
To A. C. Ramsay 23 February [1860]
Summary
Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2711 |
