Thanks for the valuable present, which he is reading as fast as possible. Comments on the work in the light of his own researches. Is glad he put in a note about C. R. Darwin.
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Thanks for the valuable present, which he is reading as fast as possible. Comments on the work in the light of his own researches. Is glad he put in a note about C. R. Darwin.
Asks for copy of CD’s paper ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71]. Gathers that drift of Moel Tryfan is glacial.
Believes Glen Roy roads formed later than submergence of Scotland.
Asks CD’s opinion concerning relative chronology of various glacial deposits, particularly a flint tool find in the Ouse River near Bedford.
Ice could not have formed the blockages in Lochaber unless in every case the water escaped over some col into a contiguous valley on the same watershed, or into the eastern watershed. Supposes that the cols were not land-straits, but the places where the lakes were drained when forced to flow the wrong way.