From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 168: 86
Summary:
Plans to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Plans to visit Down.
Overjoyed at having met CD.
Sends a paper by William Whitaker [? "On subaerial denudation", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 23 (1867): 265–6].
Thanks and praises CD for Earthworms.
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
Invites him to lunch.
Explains how to reach Down.