To Otto Zacharias 26 April 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
April 26th 77
My dear Sir
I am sorry to say that I have not osteological knowledge enough for my opinion to be of any value with respect to the anomalous foot of the pig, which you have been so good as to send me.—1 I do not know whether it has arrived at Down, for I am at present away from home; but when it arrives I will send it to Prof. Flower, at the R. Collg. of Surgeons who has made a special study of the limbs of the Ungulata & who is a most careful & admirable observer.—2
I have asked him to send me a note, if the foot presents any remarkable peculiarities, & should I receive any such note, I will forward it to you.—3
I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Flower, William Henry. 1876. An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia: being the substance of the course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1870. 2d edition. London: Macmillan and Co.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Zacharias, Otto. 1882. Charles R. Darwin und die cultur-historische Bedeutung seiner Theorie vom Ursprung der Arten. Ein Beitrag zur Darwin-Litteratur. Berlin: Elwin Staude.
Summary
CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10941
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Otto Zacharias
- Sent from
- London Down letterhead
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10941,” accessed on 22 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10941.xml
