From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
19 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 332
Summary:
Gives permission to use letter [10676].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.
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.