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 [1 word illeg.] 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 is1 [2] astonishing.
Are you aware of what a Committee of the British Association2 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 Report3 is published, but Prof[essor]. Ramsay4 of Jermyn St could tell you.
[3] I do not despair of seeing Lyell5the great Champion of glacial erosion.
Yours very truly | Arch Geikie [signature]
A. R. Wallace Esq
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