From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[12 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.25)
Summary:
Discusses at length Louis Agassiz’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. Defends his own theory of the importance of floating ice. Relates glacier theory to his own interpretation of Glen Roy.
Mentions a paper he is writing on South American boulders and till [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project