From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hunt
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.250)
Summary:
Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.
Has completed MS on poultry [for Variation].
Thanks for information on their courtship.
Thanks for railway map.
Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."
Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].