From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:
Family financial matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Family financial matters.
Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].
Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.
Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]