To Felix von Luschan 5 May 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 5. 1873
Dear Sir
I thank you for your very obliging note & the present of your essays & the Photographs.1 The prominence of the superciliary ridge is certainly most remarkable; but in truth I am too ignorant on osteological points, for my opinion to be of any value, & therefore will not venture on any remarks.2
With my renewed thanks, I remain Dear Sir with my respect— yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Luschan’s note, essays, and photographs have not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. By May 1873, Luschan had published three essays on human fossils found in central Europe (Luschan 1872a, 1872b, and 1873).
The superciliary ridge is a prominence of the frontal bone above the eye sockets. Luschan, a student of medicine in Vienna and Paris, was particularly interested in craniology.
Summary
Thanks FL for sending his essays and some photographs.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8899
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Felix von Luschan
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Felix v. Luschan: Darwin, Charles)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8899,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8899.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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