From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 172
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.