To Louis Agassiz   1 March [1841]

12 Upper Gower St | London

Sir

I take the liberty of sending you a copy of my Journal, published some time since.— I have lately enjoyed the pleasure of reading your work on Glaciers,1 which has filled me with admiration. As I have briefly treated of the boulders of S. America in the accompanying volume I thought you possibly might like to posses a copy; and sending it you, is the only means I have of expressing the regret I feel at the manner in which I have alluded to (although probably the fact is unknown and quite indifferent to you) your most valuable labours on the action of Glaciers.2 I trust you will excuse the liberty I now take simply for my own satisfaction, and I beg to remain with feelings of much respect.

Sir | Your obedient servant | Charles Darwin

March 1st.—

L. Agassiz 1840.
CD had sharply criticised a number of Agassiz’s papers on glaciers in the Addenda to Journal of researches, pp. 617–18.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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