To James Croll 24 February [1869]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb. 24th
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for the Proofs, which have interested me greatly.2 I cannot for a moment pretend to form any judgment, but your view seems to me very ingenious; if accepted it will be a most satisfactory & great step in our knowledge of glacier-movements
In Haste | Your’s very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from James Croll, 15 February 1869.
CD refers to proof-sheets of ‘On the physical cause of the motion of glaciers’ (Croll 1869; see letter from James Croll, 15 February 1869 and n. 3).
Bibliography
Croll, James. 1869. On the physical cause of the motion of glaciers. Philosophical Magazine 37: 201–6.
Summary
Thanks JC for his proofs of article on the movement of glaciers.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6630
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Croll
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.271)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6630,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6630.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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