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WCP4121

Letter (WCP4121.4138)

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Parkstone, Dorset.

May 9th. 1893

Prof. J. Geikie.1

Dear Sir

In "Nature", March 30th, p. 522 — Prof. Bonney2 refers to your support of Ramsay’s3 theory of Ice origin of Lake basins. Will you be so good as to inform me whether he alludes to your "Great Ice Age",4 or whether you have written anything else on the suppose subject. Should you have spare copies of any papers, I shd. 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 shd. 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 R. Wallace [signature]

1
Geikie, James Murdoch (1839-1915). British geologist; brother of Archibald Geikie.
2
Bonney, Thomas George (1833-1923). British geologist, Secretary and later President of the Geological Society of London 1884-1886.
3
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie (1814-1891). British geologist.
4
Geikie, James. 1874. The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man. W. Isbister and Co.

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Transcribed by Wong, Jennifer [2012-08-15] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

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