To T. H. Huxley 30 April [1862]1
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Apr. 30th
My dear Huxley
It is late at night & I have this minute finished your Address to Geolog. Socy. & I must just thank you for sending it me.—2 I have read it with uncommon interest. It is a wonderful condensed & original summary on Palæontology, & I should think & hope will do much good.— I hope you are not killing yourself with too much work—
Good night— | yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3522
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3522,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3522.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
