WCP4121

Letter (WCP4121.4138)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

May 9th. 1893

Prof. J. Geikie.1

Dear Sir

In "Nature", March 30th, p. 522 — Prof. Bourney[?] refers to your support of Ramsay’s2 theory of Ice origin of Lake basins. Will you be so good as to inform me whether he alludes to your "Great Ice Age"3, or whether you have written anything else on the suppose subject. Should you have spare copies of any papers, I sh[oul]d. be obliged for one. Also can you refer me to any account of the glacial phenomena of the [2] Lake District. I think of going there this summer & I sh[oul]d. be glad of some little guidance. I am only an amateur in the subject, but it has an intense interest for me, and I have undertaken to write a review, article on the glacial Lake theory. Have the Cumberland Lakes been shown to be true rock-basins, as that is one of the most essential points.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred Russel Wallace [signature]

1
Professor James Geikie, geologist, lived 1839 — 1915.
2
Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, geologist, lived 1814 — 1891.
3
Refers to Geikie’s The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, published 1874.

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Transcribed by Wong, Jennifer [2012-08-15] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

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