From:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
22 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 101
Summary:
Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.