From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[17] Dec [1872]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 308)
Summary:
Plans to see THH in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Plans to see THH in London.
Describes a case of maternal instinct, in which a hen protected kittens.
Report of yellow fever among Brazilian monkeys probably untrue; his correspondent is only a journalist.
Encloses letter about monkeys allegedly dying from yellow fever.