From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
25 Nov [1844-6]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (May 2013)
Summary:
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.
No summary available.
Will attend to JH's wishes regarding the correspondence. Discusses the buoyancy correction for particular types of pendulums. Asks if JH has received the magnetic results from Geneva.