From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
10 Jan 1869
Source of text:
J. C. Irons 1896 , p. 215
Summary:
Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.
Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.
Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].
CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.