From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A106–6a
Summary:
Observations on expression and variation in Asian peoples: when colour of beard and hair differ, beard is always lighter. Differences in swimming strokes. Polydactylism.
Has just sent Hooker a paper on Sikkim tree-ferns [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 (1875): 1–44, read 1870].
Has had fever since the end of the rains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project