Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
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Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
On JG’s Great ice age.
Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.
Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].
Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.
Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].
Gives permission to use letter [10676].
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Comments on Prehistoric Europe.
Asks JG’s opinion of Daniel Mackintosh’s paper ["Results of a systematic survey of erratic blocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–53].
Comments on loess.
Feels uneasy about streams of stone of Falkland Islands.
Testimonial letter stating his belief in JG’s suitability for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Glaciation in the British Isles.
S. B. J. Skertchley’s researches on Palaeolithic man in England [Nature 14 (1876): 448–9].
Wishes to publish CD’s explanation of positions of stones in certain gravelly drifts in a forthcoming book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
Thanks for permission to use CD’s letter.
Discusses Prehistoric Europe; establishing the existence of interglacial periods; iceberg vs glacier transport of erratic boulders.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Terraces on the Cheviot Hills.
Seeks a testimonial for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Thanks CD for his support.