From A. C. Ramsay 18 August 1864
London
18 Augt 1864
My dear Mr Darwin
You read about that lake that was to be drained in my “Old Glaciers of North Wales”.1 The lake is Glaslyn on Snowdon. It never was done.
I hope you have read or will read Sir Rodericks counterblast against my theory in his Anniversary Address to the Geographical Society.2 If authority can squash a man I am squashed; but I am contumacious enough to think that such a method will not advance his reputation. I think I must answer it, even though I feel that any reply however good cannot have any effect on any one who can accept Sir Rodericks assertions as arguments.3
At Beaumaris4 I finished my “Geology of North Wales”, and am about ready to go to Press.5 It is essentially Silurian, & I touch nothing later than the New Red Sandstone.
Ever sincerely | Andrew C Ramsay
Footnotes
Bibliography
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1866. The geology of North Wales. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. [Vol. 3 of Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology.]
Summary
R. I. Murchison has criticised ACR’s glacial lake theory in his Presidential Address to Royal Geographical Society [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 34 (1864): cix–cxcii].
ACR has finished his Geology of N. Wales.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4595
- From
- Andrew Crombie Ramsay
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 13
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4595,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4595.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12