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To A. C. Ramsay   9 November [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov 9th

My dear Prof Ramsay

I am very much obliged for your kind present of your Physical Geology &c.

I read the first Edit, but I will certainly read again the present one, for I am sure it will interest & instruct me, as have all your writings.—2

Believe me | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between 1872 and 1874, and by the reference to Ramsay 1872 (see n. 2, below).
2
There are copies of the first and third editions of Ramsay’s The physical geology and geography of Great Britain (Ramsay 1863 and Ramsay 1872) in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Bibliography

Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1863b. The physical geology and geography of Great Britain: a course of six lectures delivered to working men in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, in January and February 1863. London: Edward Stanford.

Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1872. The physical geology and geography of Great Britain. 3d edition. London: Edward Stanford.

Summary

Thanks for 3rd edition of ACR’s Physical geology and geography of Great Britain (A. C. Ramsay 1872).

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8616F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Clifton College (Stone Library MSS)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8616F,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/view/letters/DCP-LETT-8616F

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)

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