From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 6 (EH: 88205944)
Summary:
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Describes departure of expedition to China, Japan, and South America.
Copy of CD’s queries provided to expedition.
Invites CD to make suggestions for scientific work to be carried out.
Subscriptions for Sinai survey fund are nearly complete. Survey party will embark for Alexandria aboard Ripon on 24 Oct. Will send account books to JH and R. I. Murchison. Will not need JH's astronomical instrument.