From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 263
Summary:
Argues for great age of earth before the Cambrian period. Opposes measuring age from secular cooling. Opposes Sir William Thomson. Lyell’s error on secular cooling.
Thanks for Moseley citation ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].
In Edinburgh he feels out of touch with latest developments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project