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DCP-LETT-1115

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
7 Sept 1847
Source of text:
DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Summary:

Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.

Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP70

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
28 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/50)
Summary:

The Glenroy terraces match WK’s measurements of the terraces on the Tweed.

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Ruth Cramond
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