From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
27 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 17
Summary:
Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Promises to vote for Lankester.
Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.
Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.
Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].
Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.
Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.