To J. S. Henslow [c. 26 October –] 24 November [1832]
Summary
A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-192 |
From Catherine Darwin 14 October [1832]
Summary
Writes news of family, Maer, and Woodhouse. His father has sent for a banana tree
and plans to buy J. J. Audubon’s book [Birds of America (1827)].
Charles Langton has been given a living near Ludlow.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-187 |
To Caroline Darwin 24 October – 24 November [1832]
Summary
During the past two months CD has been lucky with fossil bones, and he is also finding new specimens of living animals.
He describes an ostrich hunt.
Has received several letters from home.
He enjoys Buenos Aires and admires the señoritas. Tierra del Fuego is next.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 24 Oct & 24 Nov [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-188 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
