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WCP2230

Letter (WCP2230.2120)

[1]

Edinburgh

25th Novr 1869

Dear Sir

Your note has just reached me. In regard to moraines in Scotland & Wales we find them in every stage of decay. Some are apparently as fresh as Ore others have mouldered down and are visibly mouldering from year to year. I have lately been in a wonderful moraine district in Galloway and the evidence there of great waste of the moraines is [2] is astonishing.

Are you aware of what a Committee of the British Association has been doing in the way preparing the way for a measurement of the amount of erosion effected by glaciers? I don't know whether the Report1 is published, but Prof. Ramsay2 of Jermyn St could tell you.

[3] I do not despair of seeing Lyell3 the great champion of glacial erosion.

Yours very truly | Arch Geikie4 [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq

1
Ramsay, A. C., Torell, O., Bauerman, H. 1870. Report on ice as an agent of geologic change. [By a Committee]. Report of the Thirty-ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Held at Exeter in August 1869. London: John Murray.
2
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie (1814-1891). British geologist.
3
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.
4
Geikie, Archibald (1835-1924). British geologist and historian.

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Transcribed by Kodra, Ina [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2230,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2230