WCP2229

Letter (WCP2229.2119)

[1]

Ardrossan, Ayrshire

13 Novr 1869

My dear Sir

Your note has just reached me here. I am moving about the country with my staff in the Survey1; all my papers are in Edinburgh but as soon as I get there which will be in ten days or so, I shall search for a copy of the paper you wish & of any others of mine bearing on the same subject[.]

[2] When I last saw Sir Charles Lyell2 he told me you had been going into the question of lake-basins. I lately found some interesting materials in that way in the Salzkammergut where a little glacier is busy grinding out a basin. I must try to write out my notes of it.

Yours very truly | Arch Geikie [signature]

Alfred R Wallace Esq

9 St Marks Cresent

Regents Park

N.W.

1
The British Geological Survey founded in 1835. Archibald Geikie was appointed Director of the Scottish branch in 1867. See British Geological Survey. 2020. Pioneers of the British Geological Survey. British Geological Survey. <https://www.bgs.ac.uk/about/ourPast.html> [accessed 30 May 2020].
2
Lyell, Charles (1797-1875). British geologist and author, notably of the influential Principles of Geology (1830-3). President of the Geological Society of London, 1835-7 & 1849-51.

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Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2019-12-17] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP2229,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2229