From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
11 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 60.13)
Summary:
Asks whether GG can provide a few fresh specimens of Goodyera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks whether GG can provide a few fresh specimens of Goodyera.
Going to sea-side for Etty’s health.
Asks JBI further questions about a striped donkey he had reported to CD.
Requests observations on Drosera and Dionaea,
and asks DO to look up Buchanan and Wight on insectivorous plants ["Conspectus of Indian Utricularia", Hooker’s J. Bot. 1 (1849): 372–4].
Unable to give in a letter the practical geometrical results he has worked out from the laws of the king's chamber of the Great Pyramid. It would grace a history of Egyptian astronomy.
Begins with a discussion of the probability of error in a series of measurements and comments on astronomical observations including the observation of a comet.