From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:
10 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.404)
Summary:
Doubts whether an experiment to test the durability of human bones would be worth while. Absence of such bones in post-glacial river-bed deposits does not weigh in the least on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project