To Leonard Jenyns [14 or 21 August 1846]
Summary
Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].
Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.
Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [14 or 21] Aug 1846 |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-987 |
To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1846]
Summary
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 17 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1009 |
Blomefield, Leonard | |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |