To Alpheus Hyatt 21 January [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan. 21st
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind & interesting note, & printed extract, which latter however is not very clear.2 I will consider all that you have suggested & shall be extremely glad to read at some future time your valuable memoir when published.—3 I remember your visit here with much pleasure,4 & remain with all good wishes | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hyatt, Alpheus. 1874. Abstract of a memoir on the ‘Biological relations of the Jurassic ammonites’. [Read 16 December 1874.] Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 17 (1874–5): 236–41.
Summary
Thanks for note and extract.
Will be glad to read AH’s memoir when published [? "The Jurassic and Cretaceous Ammonites collected in South America by Prof. James Orton" Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. [Proc Mem Jnl!?] 17 (1875): 365–72].
Recalls AH’s visit to Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9826
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alpheus Hyatt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9826,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9826.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
