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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
9 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106)
Summary:

Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
24 June [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4)
Summary:

Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
[26 June 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Has finished ACR’s article ["The old glaciers of Switzerland and N. Wales" in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts in Siberia. Wishes ACR would examine the Glen Roy parallel roads and settle the problem.

Asks if it is certain that traces of organic remains have been found in Long Mynd beds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
1 July [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Thanks for answer to queries.

Expresses intention of reporting observations of traces of life in the Long Mynd beds and asks permission to cite ACR on his recent discovery of fossils in the Laurentian marbles of Canada.

Urges ACR’s investigation of Glen Roy problems.

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