From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
12 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 252
Summary:
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks if JP can send criticism of Origin.
Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].