From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 36
Summary:
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.
Has revisited Cambridge.
"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],
burglar alarms,
and family news.
Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.
Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].