From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 17)
Summary:
Spoke to Rosas, and gave him CD’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Spoke to Rosas, and gave him CD’s paper.
Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.
Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].
Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.
Has been very ill.
Received JH's translation, which is better than any blank verse can do. Invites JH to visit Lyells.
R.S.L. Council has decided to publish correspondence regarding the Melbourne telescope. Sends early pages for JH's corrections.
Thanks for article by JH's son Alexander Herschel on meteors. Has printed it in Bulletin of the academy.