To Francis Darwin [11 October 1876]
Bassett
From Mr. C. Darwin,
You have sent me the 2d part of the Zoolog. Garten with an account of the death of the mandrill.— Please send me month & page of the first part about the mandrill, that I may give reference.—1
C. D.
Footnotes
CD was writing a letter on sexual selection in monkeys for Nature; the letter discussed a two-part article on the mandrill (Cynocephalus mormon, a synonym of Mandrillus sphinx) in Zoologische Garten (Fischer 1876a; see letter to Francis Darwin, 20 September [1876] and n. 3). Part 1 of Fischer 1876a was published in April 1876, pp. 116–27; part 2 in June 1876, pp. 174–9.
Summary
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10638
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Bassett
- Postmark
- OC 11 76
- Source of text
- DAR 211: 17
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10638,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10638.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
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