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From Thomas Francis Jamieson   24 March 1862

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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

To T. F. Jamieson    27 March [1862]

Summary

Will forward TFJ’s letter to Charles Lyell.

Gives up the marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] for ‘ever & ever’, but ‘with a groan’.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:  27 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  McConnochie 1901, p. 236
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3487G

To T. F. Jamieson   21 November 1862

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CD expresses his high opinion of TFJ’s scientific qualifications for lecturing on agriculture.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:  21 Nov 1862
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (MS.5406:171–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3818
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