From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[2–5 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 243
Summary:
Further observations on expression of her dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Further observations on expression of her dog.
Thanks for the fact about the dog.
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.