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From Friedrich Rolle   28 January 1866

Summary

Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.

Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.

Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.

Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.

Author:  Friedrich Rolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Jan 1866
Classmark:  DAR 176: 202
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4986

From Frederic Ward Putnam   29 January 1866

Summary

Sends a paper on Bombus ["On the habits of some species of humble-bees", Commun. Essex Inst. 4 (1866): 98–104].

Author:  Frederic Ward Putnam
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan 1866
Classmark:  DAR 174: 81
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4987
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