To Charles Henry Lardner Woodd 4 March 1850

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1307,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1307

Summary

Comments on paper by CHLW.

Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.

"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-1307
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Charles Henry Lardner Woodd
Date: 4 Mar 1850
Sent from: Down
Source of text: DAR 148: 375
Physical description: 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4.