From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Lumb
Date:
30 Mar 1834
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (2006)
Summary:
CD asks the time of shipment and vessel in which the [Megatherium] bones were conveyed.
Patagonia swarms with guanaco, but few other creatures.
Hopes to be able to draw up a tolerable sketch of the geology of the east side of S. America.
Saw Jemmy Button, who is married and will stay in Tierra del Fuego. Mentions Falkland uprising.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project