From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 7
Summary:
Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.
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