To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846]
Summary
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 10 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1008 |
To A. C. Ramsay 21 December [1846]
Summary
Discusses the geological origin of terraces.
Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].
Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 21 Dec [1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1038 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 4 February [1848]
Summary
Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.
"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 4 Feb [1848] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1152 |
To A. C. Ramsay 7 April [1848]
Summary
Asks ACR to establish height of Moel Tryfan in Caernarvonshire; "in my notice on this hill [""Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire"" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71] I give a very much less height than others". [See also another mention of the elevation of Moel Tryfan in "On the transportal of erratic boulders" (1848), Collected papers 1: 218–27.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 7 Apr [1848] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1168 |
To A. C. Ramsay 3 November 1878
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 3 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 10 (EH 88205983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11735 |
To A. C. Ramsay 17 June 1880
Summary
Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 17 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12638 |
From A. C. Ramsay 18 June [1880]
Summary
Further details of pavement that sank from action of earthworms. There were plenty of castings, which first led him to think worms were involved.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13210 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 9 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 9 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1512 |
To A. C. Ramsay 22 November [1854]
Summary
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 22 Nov [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1606 |
To A. C. Ramsay 24 June [1859]
Summary
Comments on ACR’s "The old glaciers [of Switzerland and N. Wales", in Peaks, passes, and glaciers: a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Discusses erratic blocks in the Jura. Notes views of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 24 June [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2291 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 29 December 1858
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 398 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2387 |
From A. C. Ramsay 6 January 1859
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries concerning faults; is sending sections of the kind he wants. The Merionethshire fault with a downthrow of 12000ft. [See Origin, p. 285.]
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 399 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2398 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 21 February 1860
Summary
ACR has for years had a belief in mutability and transmutation of species, prompted by disputes over the nature of species and varieties, and the existence of representative species in space and in the geological record. Could not accept a Creator employing small miracles to make species differ just a little between formations. Has maintained that one would not expect to find fine gradations between forms in the fossil record, but only representatives of very populous forms. [See 2711.]
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 112–16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2706A |
To A. C. Ramsay 23 February [1860]
Summary
Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 23 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2711 |
To A. C. Ramsay [26 June 1859]
Summary
Has finished ACR’s article ["The old glaciers of Switzerland and N. Wales" in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts in Siberia. Wishes ACR would examine the Glen Roy parallel roads and settle the problem.
Asks if it is certain that traces of organic remains have been found in Long Mynd beds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | [26 June 1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2842 |
From A. C. Ramsay [27–30 June 1859]
Summary
No doubt about worm-holes in the Long Mynd, and they are certainly lower than J. Barrande’s primordial zone. Fossils in Laurentian gneiss.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27–30 June 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 400 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2845 |
To A. C. Ramsay 1 July [1859]
Summary
Thanks for answer to queries.
Expresses intention of reporting observations of traces of life in the Long Mynd beds and asks permission to cite ACR on his recent discovery of fossils in the Laurentian marbles of Canada.
Urges ACR’s investigation of Glen Roy problems.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 1 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2851 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 17 February 1862
Summary
In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3450 |
To A. C. Ramsay 18 February [1862]
Summary
Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 18 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 3 (EH 88205976) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3453 |
From A. C. Ramsay 26 August 1862
Summary
Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3701 |
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