From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bellyse Baildon
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].
Thanks for enclosures.
Remembers Edward Vivian.
Glad to hear of flint tools.
Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.