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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 |