From John Phillips 14 March 1874
Oxford
14 March | 1874
My dear Darwin
I am unable to be in London the 16th: being then en route to Torquay: so that I can not have the pleasure of doing as you wish for Mr H. Parker; but I hope he will be elected:1 You ought to come & see my Cetiosaurus!
50–64 feet long.
10 or 12 ft high & broad.
only the head wanting.2 not a bit like Megalosaurus.
Er Yrs | John Phillips
Footnotes
Bibliography
Phillips, John. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames. Oxford: Clarenden Press.
Summary
Will be out of town, so he cannot vote for Henry Parker.
CD ought to come to see his Cetiosaurus, of which he draws a likeness.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9360
- From
- John Phillips
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Oxford
- Source of text
- DAR 174: 42
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9360,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9360.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22