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manner in which the crust of the earth rises in mass would Letter 518 

 be much elucidated, and a great service done to geological 

 science. 



R. Chambers 1 to D. Milne-Home. 2 Letter 519 



St. Andrews, Sept. 7th, 1847. 



1 have had a letter to-day from Mr. Charles Darwin, 

 beseeching me to obtain for him a copy of your paper on 

 Glen Roy. 3 I am sure you will have pleasure in sending him 

 one ; his address is " Down, Farnborough, Kent." I have 

 again read over your paper carefully, and feel assured that 

 the careful collection and statement of facts which are found 

 in it must redound to your credit with all candid persons. 

 The suspicions, however, which I obtained some time ago as 

 to land-straits arid heights of country being connected with 

 sea-margins and their ordinary memorials still possesses me, 

 and I am looking forward to some means of further testing 

 the Glen Roy mystery. If my suspicion turn out true, I shall 

 at once be regretful on your account, and shall feel it as a 

 great check and admonition to myself not to be too confident 

 about anything in science till it has been proved over and 

 over again. The ground hereabouts is now getting clear of 

 the crops ; perhaps when I am in town a few days hence we 

 may be able to make some appointment for an examination 

 of the beaches of the district, my list of which has been 

 greatly enlarged during the last two months. 



To R. Chambers. Letter 520 



Sept. nth, 1847. 



I hope you will read the first part of my paper before you 

 go [to Glen Roy], and attend to the manner in which the 



1 Robert Chambers (1802-71) began as a bookseller in Edinburgh 

 in 1816, and from very modest beginnings he gradually increased his 

 business till it became the flourishing publishing firm of W. & R. 

 Chambers. After writing several books on biographical, historical and 

 other subjects, Chambers published anonymously the Vestiges of the 

 Natural History of Creation in 1844 ; in 1848 his work on Ancient Sea 

 Margins appeared ; and this was followed by the Book of Days and 

 other volumes. (Diet. Nat. Biog. 1887 ; see also Darwin's Life and 

 Letters, I., pp. 355, 356, 362, 363.) 



2 See Letter 479. 



3 No doubt Mr. Milne's paper " On the Parallel Roads of Lochaber," 

 Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., Vol. XVI., p. 395, 1849. [Read March ist and 

 April 5th, 1847.] 



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