From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150)
Summary:
Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
Has never heard of bees that are carnivorous; hopes someone will investigate ASP’s observations.
Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.
Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.