From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329
Summary:
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.
Asks to visit Down on Saturday.
The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.