To James Geikie 26 October 1876
Summary
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 26 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10655 |
To James Geikie 16 November 1876
Summary
On JG’s Great ice age.
Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.
Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].
Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.
Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 16 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10676 |
To James Geikie 19 July 1880
Summary
Gives permission to use letter [10676].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 19 July 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12663 |
To James Geikie 27 November 1880
Summary
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 27 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12869 |
To James Geikie 13 December 1880
Summary
Comments on Prehistoric Europe.
Asks JG’s opinion of Daniel Mackintosh’s paper ["Results of a systematic survey of erratic blocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–53].
Comments on loess.
Feels uneasy about streams of stone of Falkland Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12909 |
To James Geikie [after 15 December 1881]
Summary
Testimonial letter stating his belief in JG’s suitability for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | [after 15 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 103v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13553 |
Geikie, James | (6) |