From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 69
Summary:
Asks for sketches of [Thalia] pistil, in which he is much interested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks for sketches of [Thalia] pistil, in which he is much interested.
Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.
Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.
Writes about [H. R. Hope-]Pinker, who tried to approach CD via the Royal Institution in order to sculpt a bust of him. WS advises against agreeing to sit for him.
Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.