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To G. J. Romanes   14 September [1879]

Summary

Thanks GJR for gift of game.

Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  14 Sept [1879]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12229

To Victor Marshall   14 September 1879

Summary

CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.

Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.

Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:  14 Sept 1879
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12230