From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.275)
Summary:
Explains how melting of ice in Glen Spean could have successively freed two lower cols, thus establishing the water-levels that determined the two lower shelves in Glen Roy.
Plans to read a paper to the Linnean Society ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project