To ? 22 June [1875–81]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 22.
Dear Sir
I send the photograph which you desire.2 I have published only one paper in the Royal Society, & of this I have no spare copy; it is on the Parallel Roads of Glenroy & my conclusions have proved erroneous3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Parallel roads of Glen Roy’: Observations on the parallel roads of Glen Roy, and of other parts of Lochaber in Scotland, with an attempt to prove that they are of marine origin. By Charles Darwin. [Read 7 February 1839.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 129: 39–81. [Shorter publications, pp. 50–88.]
Rudwick, Martin John Spencer. 1974. Darwin and Glen Roy: a ‘great failure’ in scientific method? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 5 (1974–5): 97–185.
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10544
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10544,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10544.xml