To John Forbes Royle [24 May 1838]
Dear Royle
I heard the other day you were going to give a lecture somewhere on the geography of plants with relation to the Himalayah.1 Will you have the kindness to oblige me by sending me one line to tell me the where and the when, as I should very much like, in case my information is correct, to hear it. Excuse me troubling you.
You ought to have been at Geolog. Soc. last night. We had a grand battle between Sedgwick2 and Greenough,3 the former most eloquent, the latter most obstinate but most good-humoured.
Yours most truly | Chas. Darwin
Thursday Morng. 36 Grt. Marlbro’ St.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Notebook C. See de Beer 1960; de Beer and Rowlands 1961; de Beer, Rowlands, and Skramovsky 1967; Notebooks.
Summary
Would like to attend a lecture by JFR on "geography of plants with relation to the Himalayas".
"A grand battle" at the Geological Society between Sedgwick and G. B. Greenough.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-415
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Forbes Royle
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 397
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 415,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-415.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2