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Darwin Correspondence Project

To F. S. B. François de Chaumont   23 December 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dec 23. 75

My dear Sir,

I am very much obliged to you for so kindly sending me your Lectures on State medicine, parts of which, I feel sure, will interest me much.1

With many thanks | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

François de Chaumont’s Lectures on state medicine (François de Chaumont 1875) dealt with sanitation. François de Chaumont had previously provided CD with information on habitual gestures for Expression (Correspondence vols. 21 and 22).

Bibliography

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

Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.

François de Chaumont, Francis Stephen Bennet. 1875. Lectures on state medicine delivered before the Society of Apothecaries at their hall in Blackfriars: May & June 1875. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.

Summary

Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10321
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/6) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10321,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10321.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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