From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 82
Summary:
Sends some queries connected with his writing of the biographical preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends some queries connected with his writing of the biographical preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Thanks for answers to questions [in 12032].
Has ordered the new book by Butler [Evolution, old and new (1879)]. It may make EK’s own essay superfluous.
Sends an ammonite from the Upper Lias, which has Balanus-like bodies on surface. He wants CD’s interpretation. Discusses possible function of aptychi, siphuncular tube, and operculum in ammonites.
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