WCP2746

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16, Canynge Road,

Clifton,

Bristol

12^th May 1895

Dear Mr. Wallace,

I must apologize for having kept your paper so long. I was much interested & think you have stated your case clearly and strongly. You have recovered my interest in the subject. I want to know what are the physical conditions of ice under a pressure of say 1000 feet of glacier. Physicists [2] ought to be able to tell us with some approximation to this truth. I should feel inclined to question your statements on the top of page 7.

With regard to the mountain regions in non-glaciated areas what we want to know is ^not whether these are valley lakes, but whether there are flats which may point to the existence of former valley lakes. This, of course, has not escaped your notice. But have we sufficiently full information to be able to say that such valley [3] flats are absent? I know so little of the literature of the subject to be able to say. I suppose you are satisfied that they are abreast[?]. The figures on p. 17 are distinctly helpful. In which type do the valley ^sea locks of Norway and Scotland belong? A figure of one of these would have been useful for comparison.

I send an offprint of a paper on Definitions of [illeg.]. I got a [illeg.] example of connate impulse in a little chick the other day. Placing it in a basket & holding the basket firmly [4] I dropped the basket rapidly through a foot of two of space (still holding it). Up went the little [illeg.] wings in the extended attitude preparatory to flight. I took one of the chick at 3 days back to the hen from whose eggs that from which it had emerged was taken. It took no notice of her clucking & pecking on the ground which caused its brothers & sisters of the same of 8[?] [illeg.] 5 [illeg.] mother at once.

I hope I have not inconvenienced you by my keeping your paper to[sic] long.

Yours sincerely | C. Lloyd Morgan [signature]¹