From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
11 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii;
Summary:
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
16 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 96
Summary:
Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 31–2
Summary:
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Ransome
Date:
[6 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 13
Summary:
Requests repayment of loan as FR promised last spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
