To Daniel Mackintosh 9 October 1879
Summary
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 9 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12252 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 16 October 1879
Summary
DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].
Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12259 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 13 November 1880
Summary
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 13 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12812 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 21 December 1880
Summary
The recipient is thanked for his "interesting letter".
CD sends an article received from [James Geikie?]. "You will see that it is important to know whether the laminae of slate have ever been bent up-hill."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 21 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (9 June 1999) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12930F |
To Daniel Mackintosh 28 February 1882
Summary
Comments on James Geikie’s ["Intercrossing of erratics", Scottish Naturalist 6 (1882): 193–200, 241–54]. Believes JG underrates importance of floating ice in explaining drift deposits.
Comments on origin of life and natural theology.
Recommends William Graham’s The creed of science [1881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 28 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13711 |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (5) |