From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 1
Summary:
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.
Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.
Lists sections of South America of special interest.
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Discusses inclination of lava stream.
Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.
Much pleased that LH approves of Origin.
"Ilkley [Wells] did me extraordinary good."
Wants to know C. J. F. Bunbury’s opinion of Origin.