From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1859 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.134
Summary:
Recalls JH's letter from Cape regarding study of etymology. Encloses HW's own effort to develop this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Recalls JH's letter from Cape regarding study of etymology. Encloses HW's own effort to develop this.
Suggests CD use the common origin of the French "chef" and the English "head" or "évêque" and "bishop" to illustrate the parallels between extinction and transitional forms in language and palaeontology [see Natural selection, p. 384].
HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.