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To Julius von Haast   1 November 1879

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

Nov 1. 1879

My dear Sir,

I am very much obliged for your kind present of the Geology of N. Zealand, with its many admirable illustrations which I have looked at with much interest. I shall be particularly glad to read about the old glaciers.1 Every thing about so isolated a spot is indeed highly interesting to every naturalist. The extent to which Science is cultivated in N. Zealand always excites my admiration

I remain, my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
CD’s copy of Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand (J. F. J. von Haast 1879) is in the Darwin Library–Down. For a discussion of Haast’s work on glaciers, see Oldroyd 1973.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12284,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12284