From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1861
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.112/2813-16)
Summary:
Asks for copy of CD’s paper ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71]. Gathers that drift of Moel Tryfan is glacial.
Believes Glen Roy roads formed later than submergence of Scotland.
Asks CD’s opinion concerning relative chronology of various glacial deposits, particularly a flint tool find in the Ouse River near Bedford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project