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.
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.
Reports observations of T. C. Renshaw on how some flowers of the Tritoma catch bees and other insects. Thinks it may be a contrivance against unbidden visitors, as insects caught are not consumed.