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From James Geikie   22 July 1880

Perth

22d. July 1880

My dear Sir

Pray accept my best thanks for your kind permission to use the notes you were so good as to send me.1 They will need no “touching-up”—being perfectly clear and terse. It was extremely kind of you to reply to my letter. I am only sorry to have put you to that trouble. But I’m very glad to have the additional interesting information.2 I am grateful and pleased more than I can say that you should have considered it worth your while to write to me. Nor would you wonder at this if you knew how great is the love and veneration with which I have looked up to you for many years. Pray excuse me saying so much.

With highest regards | Yours sincerely | James Geikie

2
In his letter to Geikie of 19 July 1880, CD had added further observations on differential movement in drifts. In Prehistoric Europe: a geological sketch, Geikie quoted from this letter as well as from CD’s earlier observations made in the letter to James Geikie, 16 November 1876 (Correspondence vol. 24; see also Geikie 1881, pp. 141–2).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12666,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12666