From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
31 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 79
Summary:
Comments on bees.
Praises TB’s The naturalist in Nicaragua.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Comments on bees.
Praises TB’s The naturalist in Nicaragua.
Asks whether it would be possible for Contemporary Review to republish an article on language from North American Review [119 (1874): 61–88] by William Dwight Whitney which answers F. Max Müller; would pay expense of printing if necessary.
CD has been abused in the Quarterly Review for "amazing ignorance".