From:
Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 41
Summary:
Sends boxes of Lake Geneva pebbles that CD requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends boxes of Lake Geneva pebbles that CD requested.
His work on Mexico has some geology, which might interest CD.
He is currently at work on the "filiation des genres des espèces et des moeurs des guepes [hornets]".
Thanks HdS for pebbles of Roman bricks. When he goes over MS [Earthworms] again, he will compare smoother ones with those having undergone attrition in gizzards of worms.
Has received book [La question du lac] sent by HdS.
Also sends photograph taken by Leonard Darwin of CD.
Requests photograph of HdS to add to his collection.