From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Poor health has made him give up all geological work.
Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.
Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.
Finds marriage a great happiness.
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".