From:
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 241
Summary:
Reports catching a landrail on board ship.
Encloses drawings of insects caught at sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Reports catching a landrail on board ship.
Encloses drawings of insects caught at sea.
Comments on FWH’s article ["Some remarks on Mr Darwin’s theory", Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8]. Does not adduce direct evidence of species change but believes it because so many phenomena thus explained.
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.