From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 209
Summary:
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project