From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 81
Summary:
Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.
On Lyell’s death; JDH has arranged for burial in Westminster Abbey. His thoughts on a testimonial.
More trouble with Lord Henry Lennox.
No summary available.
Is much obliged to TW and his friend for having told him about the azalea, but CD had already seen the account.
Speculates on the function of eyebrows and of hair and the furrows of the forehead. Considers many features and faculties to serve, or to have served, more than one function, either simultaneously or successively. Determining the one function through which natural selection has acted in developing it is unrealistic and not worth while.