From James Croll 22 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13421 |
From James Croll 23 September 1868
Summary
Sends two papers; glad CD appreciates two he has already sent. Cannot send two others on glaciers (Philosophical Magazine, 1866 and 1867).
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6388 |
From James Croll 2 December 1868
Summary
Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6489 |
From James Croll [2 December 1868]
Summary
Glacial climates.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Dec 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E3–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6489F |
From James Croll 4 February 1869
Summary
Argues for great age of earth before the Cambrian period. Opposes measuring age from secular cooling. Opposes Sir William Thomson. Lyell’s error on secular cooling.
Thanks for Moseley citation ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].
In Edinburgh he feels out of touch with latest developments.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6599 |
From James Croll 15 February 1869
Summary
Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 264 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6616 |
From James Croll 23 June 1869
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].
Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6799 |
From James Croll 17 August 1871
Summary
Refused to write a treatise on geological time.
His paper on W. B. Carpenter’s theory of ocean currents is appearing soon.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7908 |
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