From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 243
Summary:
Regards from Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Regards from Isle of Wight.
Thanks for abstract of Etna paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86]. Never expected to see Élie de Beaumont’s theory ["craters of elevation"] so completely upset. "He must have picked out favourable cases for measurement."
More than satisfied by what was done at Linnean Society [joint reading of CD’s and Wallace’s papers: "Tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Intends to prepare longer abstract.
Comments on JF's article about glaciers and particularly on the solid, liquid, and other states of matter.
Generally approves of Edward Sabine's plan concerning magnetic observatories.