From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 7
Summary:
Verses on the Origin and Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Verses on the Origin and Descent.
John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Observations on her pet pug.
Observations on her pet cat.
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
EFL’s account of what CD has done in natural history is full and accurate and could not have been done better. He has added the titles of his later books and the name of his maternal grandfather [Josiah Wedgwood] of whom he is proud.
Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.