From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 30
Summary:
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Has forwarded FDuCG’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] to Dr Hartlaub.
Asks about eyes of camel when the animal is uttering a loud sound.
Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.
Thanks for letter and invitation to come to Down.
Sorry about CD’s bad health; Brazilian climate has improved his own.
Sorry to hear Miss Butler is dead.
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
Announces business meeting of Council on 11 Mar.
Suggests that meteors come sometimes from the sun, more typically from other stars.