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36 Whitford Road

Tranmere, Birkenhead

27th April 1883

Dear Sir,

I shall of course feel much honoured by your publishing any letter I may have received from your illustrious father.

The one about Moel Tryfan North Wales (dated Nov. 13th 1880) which you have marked but not numbered, I think ought to be published, as your father was the earliest worker in that part of North Wales.

The short letter marked (but not numbered) Dec. 21, 1880 about article from James Geikie is important, as it mainly refers to the slaty laminæ on Moel Tryfan (North Wales) with a particular reference to the manner in which they have been bent. I wrote to your father to say that they had been bent on nearly level ground in a way in which the action of ice alone would explain.

The letter marked 2 (Oct 16th 1879) ought to have the following note appended (as a footnote) after the word Secretaries* In the same letter your father asks me to explain the term "overshot loads." If you think it desirable you might add that I meant loads of boulders which had been carried over a part of the

*Meaning the Secretaries of the of the Committee of the Government Fund for Scientific Research.

sea-bed where former had deposited their loads.

Yours very truly,

D. Mackintosh