From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David James Brown
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.299)
Summary:
Discusses DJB’s MS concerning the origin of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Discusses DJB’s MS concerning the origin of species.
No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.
Pressures of work and family.
CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.
Agrees to sit for photographic portrait by WW. Thanks for reserving copy of WW's successful [Distinguished Men of Science Living 1807-8] for JH.