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DCP-LETT-1008

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
10 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].

Sends copy of South America.

Discusses action of the sea.

Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
4 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.

"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
7 Apr [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Asks ACR to establish height of Moel Tryfan in Caernarvonshire; "in my notice on this hill [""Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire"" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71] I give a very much less height than others". [See also another mention of the elevation of Moel Tryfan in "On the transportal of erratic boulders" (1848), Collected papers 1: 218–27.]

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