From:
Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 43
Summary:
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.