From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 25
Summary:
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
Comments on Descent.
EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].