To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Date: | [Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
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- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Grove, William Robert. 1866. Address of the president. Report of the thirty-sixth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Nottingham , pp. liii–lxxxii. Hutchinson, Horace …
