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To T. M. Reade   8 April 1878

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

April 8th 1878

My dear Sir

I have been very glad to read your essay, & am much obliged to you for sending me the Journal & for promising me a separate copy.—1 The Journal is returned by the same post. I think that I have before said how important it seems to me that the notion about the small antiquity of the earth, now so commonly prevailing beyond the pale of working geologists, should be upset.—

Believe me | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
In April 1878, Reade published a paper in the Geological Magazine titled ‘The age of the world as viewed by the geologist and the mathematician’ (Reade 1878). See also letter from T. M. Reade, 18 February 1878 and n. 2.

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