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To James Croll   24 February [1869]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Feb. 24th

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged for the Proofs, which have interested me greatly.2 I cannot for a moment pretend to form any judgment, but your view seems to me very ingenious; if accepted it will be a most satisfactory & great step in our knowledge of glacier-movements

In Haste | Your’s very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from James Croll, 15 February 1869.
2
CD refers to proof-sheets of ‘On the physical cause of the motion of glaciers’ (Croll 1869; see letter from James Croll, 15 February 1869 and n. 3).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 & great] interl
2.1 In Haste] added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6630,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6630