To Rudolph Ludwig [16 July 1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dear Sir,
I received only this morning your very kind letter of July 4th, together with your essay dedicated to me.2 I thank you sincerely for the great honour thus conferred on me. It is always very interesting to discover in the same ancient form characters which are now present in distinct species or subgroups; & Crocodilus Darwinii seems an excellent illustration of this remarkable fact.3
I remain, dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Ludwig, Rudolph. 1877. Fossile Crocodiliden aus der Tertiärformation des Mainzer Beckens. Cassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer.
Summary
Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11055
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Rudolph August Birminhold Sebastian (Rudolph) Ludwig
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.517)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11055,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11055.xml