From:
John Willis Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 153
Summary:
Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.
Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.
Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.
In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.
Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.