From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 145
Summary:
He is going to S. America as captain of a ship. Offers to bring back fossils for CD and B. J. Sulivan.
He is going to domesticate the Patagonian bird "something like a guinea fowl" in Sussex. He shot the only Beagle specimen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project