From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
4 Dec 1863
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Showing 1–6 of 6 items
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].
Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.
Will be proud to receive EH’s Die Radiolarien [1862].
Health continues very weak.
[P.S. 3 Jan] Has sent EH another letter by mistake.
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].