From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[3 Sept? 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 118
Summary:
Is slaving at South America – ¾ finished.
Has discovered geologists never read each other’s works – "the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness … Geology is at present very oral".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project