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DCP-LETT-11365

From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 29
Summary:

TMR believes rate of limestone formation is same now as in past.

He expects his address [of 10 Oct 1876] on geological time [Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35], which contradicts William Thomson’s view of the earth’s age, to appear soon.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
20 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.4)
Summary:

Doubtful that great heat would favour development of lower organisms.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
8 Apr 1878
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.5)
Summary:

It is important that notion of "small antiquity" of the earth be upset.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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