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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
9 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 333
Summary:

Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].

Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
13 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 334
Summary:

Comments on DM’s ["The Moel-Tryfan shelly deposits", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 37 (1881): 351–69].

Comments on cause of earthquakes.

Believes formation of ice lowered level of sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
21 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (9 June 1999)
Summary:

The recipient is thanked for his "interesting letter".

CD sends an article received from [James Geikie?]. "You will see that it is important to know whether the laminae of slate have ever been bent up-hill."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
28 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 335
Summary:

Comments on James Geikie’s ["Intercrossing of erratics", Scottish Naturalist 6 (1882): 193–200, 241–54]. Believes JG underrates importance of floating ice in explaining drift deposits.

Comments on origin of life and natural theology.

Recommends William Graham’s The creed of science [1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project