Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.
[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]
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Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.
[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]
Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].
Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].
Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].