From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A126–A127
Summary:
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
