To J. de C. Sowerby [28 August or 4 September 1850]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Wednesday
My dear Sir
I have just received a Circular from Palæont. Soc. to say there will be a Council on next Monday afternoon: I shall attend it; it wd be an immense saving of time & trouble, if you could make an effort & let me have all the rough arranged by 2 oclock on Monday at the Geological Soc Somerset H:—— Let me earnestly beg you to put your shoulder to the wheel & get the job done
Yours vy truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1348
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James de Carle Sowerby
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1348,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1348.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
