To A. C. Ramsay 3 November 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Nov. 3d. | 1878
My dear Ramsay
I am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent me your Physical Geology &c of Gt. Britain. I am delighted to see that it is now in the 5th Edition, for this proves that there must be a very large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound Geological Science.1 I am heartily glad of the success of this book.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1878. The physical geology and geography of Great Britain: a manual of British geology. 5th edition. London: E. Stanford.
Summary
Thanks for ACR’s Physical geology [5th ed. (1878)]; delighted with its success, proving there is a large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound geological science.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11735
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Andrew Crombie Ramsay
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.9: 10 (EH 88205983)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11735,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11735.xml
