From:
Antoine-Marcellin (Marcellin) de Bonnal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 6
Summary:
Asks CD why some living forms have evolved and others have not.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks CD why some living forms have evolved and others have not.
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
Would like Price’s address.
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.