From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/14)
Summary:
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.
Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.