From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.
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