From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
31 July [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381)
Summary:
Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.
About a title change for the Astronomer Royal's chief assistant.
Regarding GA's proposed visit to Hawkhurst. Is losing the services of his first assistant. Book on magnetism almost printed. Is revising his article on sound. Is trying out a water telescope.
Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.