To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1863]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
July 3d.
My dear Huxley
Very sincere thanks for your long letter.2 I grieve that you are so fearfully hard worked. If Mr Flower will look at specimen, I shall be particularly obliged; pray tell him so.—3 I send by this post the specimen in a Box.— Please tell Mr F. that the cleaned rudiment is in separate parcel of tin-foil within the larger: he must be careful in opening, as it is not bigger than pin’s head. Just call his attention to points on which I am utterly ignorant.— viz whether this transparent (it was transparent before spirits) cartilage has character of embryonic bone?—what are little irregular embedded objects?—& whether the transverse dark lines can represent articulation? I rather fancy whole case will break down.—
With hearty thanks & hopes that you may get the thick of your work over | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4232
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4232,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4232.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11