My dear. W.—
You will remember about the upright pebbles & my notion of interstratified gravel & frozen snow during the Glacial periods.— Geikie sent me his Grt. Ice Age, & I wrote him a very long letter explaining my views, & he says in answer he has thought much about it & thinks the view very feasable, instead of astounding floods all over the country.2
He is going to communicate my notion to Mr Skertchly,3 of the Geolog. Survey who is now at work on allied subjects in the Eastern counties. So that if the notion is worth anything it is safe.
The more I think of it the more probable the explanation seems of a most perplexing problem.
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10486,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on