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DCP-LETT-9443

From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 27
Summary:

Studying glacial drift in NW. England, he finds evidence of intense glacial activity, but the molluscan fauna does not appear to indicate a low sea temperature. Requests information on Tierra del Fuego molluscs for comparison.

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DCP-LETT-9370

From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 176: 28
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Tidal action as a geological cause", Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 2 (1874): 50–72].

Has not yet studied CD’s list of South American molluscs.

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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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