From:
Emil Holub
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 261
Summary:
Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.
Thanks EH for gift of 2d ed. of his book of travels [Seven years in South Africa (1881)]. Expresses admiration for EH’s courage and zeal for science.
Thanks EH for book on ornithology of South Africa and for his essays [Beiträge zur Ornithologie Südafrikas von Aug. von Holub und E. Pelzeln (1882)].
Will be pleased to see him when he comes to England.