From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963)
Summary:
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project