To Robert Fitch 5 May [1850]
Down Farnborough Kent
May 5th.
My dear Sir
I write to acknowledge the safe receipt of your two specimens & to thank you for your constant & kind regard to my pursuits.— The valves are new to your collection; but they are unfortunately valves on which specific names cannot possibly be founded.—
Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Summary
Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1325
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Fitch
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Norwich Castle
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1325,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1325.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4