From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36224)
Summary:
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
F. M. Balfour getting on better in hospital.
Thanks CD for helping to get him elected to the Athenaeum.
Cannot find in his library the translation made by Walter Elliot of a Persian tract on pigeons by Sayzid Mohammed Musari.
Asks for CD’s opinion on certain theistic ideas. If spontaneous generation from inorganic material is denied, then life must be derived from some eternal being.