From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[15 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 9
Summary:
Invites him to lunch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Invites him to lunch.
Plans to visit Down.
Explains how to reach Down.
Overjoyed at having met CD.
Sends a paper by William Whitaker [? "On subaerial denudation", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 23 (1867): 265–6].
Thanks and praises CD for Earthworms.
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.