From V. O. Kovalevsky 23 May [1871]1
Berlin Georgenstrasse 7.
23 May
Dear Sir
I reached Berlin only yesterday and found both Your letters, the first about Körte and the second in answer to my letter from Paris.2 I did stop for a week at Stuttgart to study the splendid collection of Triassic Reptiles existing there and to assist at the Explaration of a new cave near Ulm containing undoubtedly human remains together with bones of Rhinoceros and Ursus spelaeus.3 To morrow I will try to have the book of Körte from the Royal library and translate the passage You want. Possibly the book is not there, as the arsenals of Prussia are furnished much better than public libraries, then I will try to get it from Leipsic, at all events I shall find the book as soon as it goes and send You the translation.
We both are very well and send our compliments to Mrs. Darwin and the ladies4 | Yours truly | W. Kowalevsky
Footnotes
Bibliography
Körte, Franz Friedrich Ernst. 1829. Strich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke vom Eie an beobachtet und beschrieben. Berlin: August Rücker.
Kurtén, Björn. 1976. The cave bear story: life and death of a vanished animal. New York: Columbia University Press.
Summary
Will translate passages as CD requests [see 7735].
Bitter at Prussian militarism.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7766
- From
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Berlin
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 62
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7766,” accessed on 30 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7766.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19