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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
26 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 330
Summary:

Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
16 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 331
Summary:

On JG’s Great ice age.

Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.

Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].

Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.

Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 29
Summary:

Glaciation in the British Isles.

S. B. J. Skertchley’s researches on Palaeolithic man in England [Nature 14 (1876): 448–9].

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From:
Geikie, James
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 November 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1905
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters