From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 52
Summary:
Extract from a sermon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Extract from a sermon.
Sends copy of book containing measurements taken of individuals of different races during voyage of Novara [Karl Heinrich von Scherzer, ed., Reise der Fregatte "Novara", Anthropologischer Theil (1867)].
Asks for scientific advice concerning newly planned expedition.
Says Carl Vogt plans to use data from book in lectures.
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
Please transmit enclosed recommendations by JH to Richard Strachey or other members of committee to establish uniform system of weights and measures for India.