WCP3992

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8^th November 1893

I am glad to hear by your letter that you are still adding to your collection of old flints and still making converts…

I have been lately writing on the glacial period, which has long interested me; and if you have the opportunity of seeing the Fortnightly Review for this month and next, you will see two articles of mine on ‘The Ice Age and its Work’— the second one treating of the ice origin of lakes, which is quite a hobby of mine, and I think I have found evidence which demonstrates that many of them were ground out by ice, though Professors Bonney, Prestwich, and all the Alpine climbers will not believe it.

I suppose you have not found any of your old flints yet, in situ, by digging, or in the undisturbed gravel at some distance below the surface. When you do that you will have more converts.