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From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 168: 59
Summary:

Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.

Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
13 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (L16163.017b)
Summary:

CD doubts that he will be able to do much more that is new, but cannot bear idleness. Has great amount of material on variation under nature, but so much has been published since the appearance of the Origin that he doubts he has the power of mind to render the mass into a digested whole.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016)
Summary:

Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.

CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project