From E. A. Darwin [after 8 June 1858]1
I send this model as I have made it, but it is not worth much. If you turn up all the triangles perpendicular to what they are fixed to, & the semicircles, in short every thing perpendicular to every thing, it makes quarter of a dodec.
This is as bad as a chinese puzzle & not of any consequence2
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter from E. A. Darwin, [8 June 1858].
The final sentence was written in pencil on the verso of the letter. The letter was originally sent folded around a series of paper cut-out figures. The figures are in DAR 162: 48/4.
Summary
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2283A
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 48c
- Physical description
- AL 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2283A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2283A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
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