From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 167
Summary:
Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.
No summary available.
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Admires EH’s Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Virchow’s conduct is shameful.
Thinks King’s College Library may have the letters of his grandfather [Thomas Okes of Exeter]. [See Erasmus Darwin, p. 14.]
Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.
Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].
Will see CD in Worthing next week.
Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.