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To A. C. Ramsay   3 November 1878

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

Nov. 3d. | 1878

My dear Ramsay

I am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent me your Physical Geology &c of Gt. Britain. I am delighted to see that it is now in the 5th Edition, for this proves that there must be a very large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound Geological Science.1 I am heartily glad of the success of this book.—

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The fifth edition of Ramsay’s The physical geology and geography of Great Britain: a manual of British geology (Ramsay 1878) is not in either the Darwin Library–CUL or the Darwin Library–Down. The book was based on a series of lectures to working men delivered at the Royal School of Mines in 1863; Ramsay had previously sent CD the second edition (Ramsay 1864; see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from A. C. Ramsay, 10 July 1864), and a copy of the first edition (Ramsay 1863) is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

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