To P. M. Duncan 19 September 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Sep. 19. 76
My dear Sir,
On turning out a pile of rubbish in one of my rooms I found a parcel with a fossil coral & a long M.S account (beautifully written) by Lonsdale.1 I believe that this arrived during one of my long illnesses, anyhow it was completely forgotten. From the length of the MS & the many references I suppose that the Specimen must have interested Lonsdale. Therefore I will send you in a day or two by rail the M.S & Specimen, all of which you can throw away if of no interest.2
I hope that I shall have not troubled you in vain and remain, | My dear Sir, | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Duncan, Peter Martin. 1866–72. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Second series. Being a supplement to the ‘Monograph of the British fossil corals,’ by MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime. London: Palaeontographical Society.
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.
Summary
Encloses coral specimen and manuscript account of it by William Lonsdale.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10608
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Peter Martin Duncan
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.498)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10608,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10608.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
