From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.
Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.
Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].
Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.
Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.
Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.