From A. C. Ramsay   26 August 1862

My dear Sir

By this post I send a paper¹ which I hope you may find time to read, for you are one of the few whose opinion I specially care about on such a subject.

When I read it Falconer² made a 40 minutes onslaught on it, & I accidentaly heard (what did not surprise) me that the Council had some difficulty about passing it at all.³

Falconer was of opinion that had I known the Himalayah I would not have propounded such a theory. Hooker, however, who was not present, writes me that “the great standing puzzle of the Himalayah, its wanting lakes, is explicable on your hypothesis & on no other that I ever heard propounded”.—⁴ He then shows cause on my hypothesis for their absence on the South & the immense number of them in Cashmire & Thibet where the valleys are wide & of gentle slope.

Ever sincerely | And^w C Ramsay