To Charles Lyell 23 [October 1861]
Summary
Comments especially on the "intermediate shelf" problem of Glen Roy; views of Jamieson and Milne. CD "cannot help a sneaking hope that the sea might have formed the horizontal shelves".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 [Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.269) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3295 |
To John Tyndall 5 June [1876]
Summary
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 5 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10532 |
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- … letter from Tyndall enquiring about this subject has been found, but Tyndall visited Glen Roy in May 1876 and lectured on the parallel roads at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 9 June (Eve and Creasey 1945, p. 212; Tyndall 1876b ). A note by Francis Darwin identifies this as a reference to David Milne Home , …
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 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
