From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 167: 35
Summary:
Reports finding a wood pigeon’s nest on the ground, though woods are nearby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Reports finding a wood pigeon’s nest on the ground, though woods are nearby.
"… hardly any event seems to me of such great importance as the settling of Australia, New Zealand, &c &c by the so called Anglo Saxons". CD thinks this due to population pressure.
Returns an "old book" [? Baeta, Comparative view of the theories and practice of Drs Cullen, Brown and Darwin (1800); see Erasmus Darwin, p. 107]. Glad to see that Dr Erasmus Darwin’s views on fever were attended to.
Fears his life of Dr Darwin will be a poor affair. "Never again will I be tempted out of my proper work."