From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
9 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 333
Summary:
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].
Comments on cause of earthquakes.
Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.
Comments on James Geikie’s ["Intercrossing of erratics", Scottish Naturalist 6 (1882): 193–200, 241–54]. Believes JG underrates importance of floating ice in explaining drift deposits.
Comments on origin of life and natural theology.
Recommends William Graham’s The creed of science [1881].