From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Jan 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 120
Summary:
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
"The learned Darwin states that Moses taught confusion. | For Man, he boldly says, descends from Ape or Monkey – | I, having read his book, am come to this conclusion | Darwin (at least himself) descends from Ass or Donkey."
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].