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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Joseph Beete Jukes1   [18 October 1846]

Down Farnborough Kent

Sunday

My dear Sir

I am sorry to say I know nothing of the fossils in question; I certainly never saw any fossils collected by Stokes,2 & I looked through the collection sent to me.. I think some specimens were sent back to him, but I have one box now, & when you are in town, I will send it you, if you choose.

I am much obliged for your very kind enquiries about my health.— I enjoyed my week at Southampton extremely. What dreadful weather you must have had during the last fortnight amongst the mountains.—3

Yours very truly | C. Darwin

Footnotes

CD and Jukes had corresponded in 1838, when Jukes sought an appointment as geological surveyor of Newfoundland (see Correspondence vol. 2, letters to J. B. Jukes, 6 December 1838 and 25 December [1838]).
Jukes had recently returned from a survey of the north-east coast of Australia as naturalist aboard H.M.S. Fly, 1842–6. He had apparently sought information from John Lort Stokes, who had surveyed the north-west coast.
Jukes was engaged in the geological survey of North Wales.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Knows nothing about missing fossils collected by J. L. Stokes.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1010
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Joseph Beete Jukes
Sent from
Down
Source of text
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1010,” accessed on 8 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1010.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3

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