To J. W. Judd 27 June 1878
Down. | Beckenham Kent.
June 27th. 1878.
My dear Sir.
I am heartily glad to hear of your intended marriage—1 A good wife is the supreme blessing in this life, & I hope & believe from what you say, that you will be as happy as I have been in this respect— May your future geological work be as valuable as that which you have already done; & more than this need not be wished for any man; the practical teaching of Geology seems an excellent idea.2
Many thanks for Neumayr; but I have already received & read a copy of the same, or at least of a very similar essay—& admirably good it seemed to me—3
This essay and one by Mojsisovics which I have lately read, show what Palæontology in the future will do for the classification & sequence of Formations—4 It delighted me to see so inverted an order of proceeding,—viz the assuming the descent of species as certain & then taking the changes of closely allied forms as the standard of geological time— My health is better than it was a few years ago, but I never pass a day without much discomfort and the sense of extreme fatigue.
With all good wishes. | Yours very sincerely— | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Neumayr, Melchior. 1878. Ueber unvermittelt auftretende Cephalopodentypen im Jura Mittel-Europa’s. Jahrbuch der kaiserlich-königlichen geologischen Reichsanstalt 28: 37–80.
Summary
Congratulates JWJ on marriage.
Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].
Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].
CD’s health better than a few years ago.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11572
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Wesley Judd
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 8
- Physical description
- C 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11572,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11572.xml