From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
5 June [1856-9]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Thanks WBDM for the particulars on the iceberg.
Will look up the barnacle specimen to which he refers at British Museum.
WBDM should remember when he returns to New Zealand that aboriginal rat and frog are "great desiderata in Natural History".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project