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To James Geikie   27 November 1880

Down | Beckenham, Kent. (&c).

Novr 27th. 1880

My dear Sir.

I received this morning your magnificent Book, & I thank you cordially. Before long I will read it, & have no doubt that it will give me as much or more pleasure than your Great Ice Age—1 It delights me that you should have thought my notion about frozen snow & drift worth insertion.2

Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin.

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1
Geikie had sent his Prehistoric Europe: a geological sketch (Geikie 1881); the second edition of his The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man was published in 1877 (Geikie 1877).
2
In his letter of 22 July 1880, Geikie thanked CD for his permission to quote from two letters (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to James Geikie, 16 November 1876, and this volume, letter to James Geikie, 19 July 1880) on differential movement in drifts (see J. Geikie 1881, pp. 141–2).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12869,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12869