From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project