From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harvard University Library
Date:
2 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library
Summary:
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.