Letter from Arch [Archibald] Geikie, Shepherd's Down, Haslemere, Surrey, to [Joseph] Larmor He apologises for not writing sooner. The extract from Erasmus Darwin sent by Larmor is interesting. Geikie has original copies of 'Zoonomia' and 'Temple of Nature' and he has placed the extract in the latter. Geikie will be at the Royal Society in London on the 6th, and they could perhaps meet. Antarctic matters have remained quiet since Admiral Field's letter. He has seen in the Press that Captain [Robert Falcon] Scott's guns have gone wrong and H.M.S. Bulwark is therefore in port. '...we may have him and his regiment of Admirals & geographers besieging the doors of the Royal Society for justice, coupled with the heads of the President & Treasurer'. 3 January 1909