From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 76
Summary:
Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
Asks about expression of emotion among Negroes and American Indians in Nicaragua. Queries enclosed.
Discusses utility of plant secretions to ants.
Will read TB’s book when published [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)].
Comments on bees.
Praises TB’s The naturalist in Nicaragua.
Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.
Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.