To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1846]
Summary
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1846] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1009 |
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Correspondent
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard |
