To James Philip Mansel Weale 6 May [1865]
Summary
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 6 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4828 |
To Friedrich Rolle 6 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Date: | 6 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4829 |
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … Krusenstern. St Petersburg, 1824–7. ( Narrative 2: 506). § Krusenstern, Adam Johann von. …
