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KILMORE

COLINTON ROAD

EDINBURGH

1 Nov. 1900

My dear Sir

Last night I received your "Studies, Scientific & social"² — for which pray accept my cordial thanks. With some of the "Studies" I was already familiar, but I am delighted to have them in this accessible form. I look forward with pleasure to re-reading these, and to studying the others which I have not seen before.

I see Prof. Davis³ of Harvard has adopted your views⁴ as to the outline of the lakes & their rock aqueous contours being evidence of their glacial origins. He used [2] to upbraid⁵ me for my extreme views⁶ of ice-erosion, he now thinks I lag behind!⁷ But the same post which brought me his interesting paper brought me one also from Prof. Saloman of Heidelberg who numbers me among the condemned "extreme glacialists.⁸ His paper seems to me an example of what we call here "cauld kail not again" — his arguments having been met again & again.

I read again your essays IV.V. & VI and do not think you could add to them or improve them in any way.⁹ Those whom they cannot convince will never be convinced.¹⁰ Thanking you heartily

Believe me | yours truly | James Geikie¹¹ [signature]