From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 333
Summary:
Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Bad news about Kosmos [ceasing publication].
Fritz Müller’s losses [in a flood]; "I have long looked on him as the best observer in the world."
EK’s astonishing account of crustacean that repairs its legs in an ancestral form seems to support Pangenesis, which has hardly any friends.
Asks for list of Royal Society Council members, which CD needs because council members never back up certificates.
Thanks AWH for copy of Fison and Howitt 1880, which he will read when it is returned by J. F. McLennan.
Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.