From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
15 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.385)
Summary:
Discusses his present book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Discusses his present book [Descent].
Would like to hear results of JM’s November booksale.
JH may recall meeting him at the Cape in March 1836. Now had a query regarding the size and limits of zodiacal light. Quotes case of errors in observations made by the Captain and Mate of a ship on which RN was returning from the Cape. Has now retired from the service.
Further comments on JH's paper on the musical scales.