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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
10 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].

Sends copy of South America.

Discusses action of the sea.

Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52)
Summary:

Discusses the geological origin of terraces.

Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].

Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
4 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.

"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
7 Apr [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Asks ACR to establish height of Moel Tryfan in Caernarvonshire; "in my notice on this hill [""Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire"" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71] I give a very much less height than others". [See also another mention of the elevation of Moel Tryfan in "On the transportal of erratic boulders" (1848), Collected papers 1: 218–27.]

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
3 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 10 (EH 88205983)
Summary:

Thanks for ACR’s Physical geology [5th ed. (1878)]; delighted with its success, proving there is a large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound geological science.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
17 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984)
Summary:

Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
9 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106)
Summary:

Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
24 June [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4)
Summary:

Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
23 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975)
Summary:

Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
[26 June 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Has finished ACR’s article ["The old glaciers of Switzerland and N. Wales" in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts in Siberia. Wishes ACR would examine the Glen Roy parallel roads and settle the problem.

Asks if it is certain that traces of organic remains have been found in Long Mynd beds.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
1 July [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Thanks for answer to queries.

Expresses intention of reporting observations of traces of life in the Long Mynd beds and asks permission to cite ACR on his recent discovery of fossils in the Laurentian marbles of Canada.

Urges ACR’s investigation of Glen Roy problems.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
18 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 3 (EH 88205976)
Summary:

Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
5 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980)
Summary:

On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.

On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.

T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
14 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 5 (EH 88205978)
Summary:

Thanks ACR for Catalogue; pleased some of his volcanic specimens have been included.

Will review T. F. Jamieson’s paper on Glen Roy. Knows the facts and knows too well that he [CD] is everlastingly smashed.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
29 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 1 (EH 88205974)
Summary:

Interested in ACR’s Presidential Address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): xxix–lii] on the breaks in succession (of formations). Hopes ACR will provide a diagram of breaks, with the percentage of fossils that "pass upwards", i.e., continue to appear.

Horrified at Huxley’s geology.

Wishes ACR would discuss "creeps".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 8)
Summary:

Thanks for his book [Physical geology and geography of Great Britain, 2d. ed. (1864)].

Pleased that ACR’s glacial lake theory is progressing. New Zealand lakes support the view. Suggests he write to Charles Gould in Tasmania, calling his attention to glacial action.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
15 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 8 (EH 88205981)
Summary:

Thanks for Geological survey of North Wales [1866]. Longs to return to the mountains with which he was once familiar, but did not understand.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
3 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 4 (EH 88205977)
Summary:

Received and read ACR’s Physical geology. Places him at head of the subaeria denudationists. Unfortunately CD confounded William Whitaker’s article with ACR’s views and gave Whitaker credit for first producing the evidence. Will rectify it now. Has eliminated the rubbish he wrote on the Weald and will add a paragraph on importance of subaerial denudation.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 9 (EH 88205982)
Summary:

Thanks ACR for papers.

Glad present situation of our continents has been confirmed.

Wishes ACR would prove his view of origin of Red Sandstones, which many dispute.

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