To C. T. E. von Siebold 15 October 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct 15. 1877
Dear Sir,
It was extremely kind of you to send me the very curious photographs, & I shall read your account of them with much interest.1 The occurrence of the same abnormality in men of different races, under the most different conditions of life, has always seemed to me a very remarkable phenomenon. I did not know personally your eminent pupil R. von Willemoes-Suhm, but I have read with care some of his papers especially that on the development of the Cirripedia, & I formed the highest opinion of his abilities.2 His death has been a very serious loss to natural science.3
I remain with great respect | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Siebold, Carl Theodor von. 1877. Die haarige Familie von Ambras. Archiv für Anthropologie 10 (1878): 253–60.
Willemoes-Suhm, Rudolf von. 1875. On the development of Lepas fascicularis, and the ‘Archizoëa’ of Cirripedia. [Read 9 December 1875.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 166 (1876): 131–54.
Summary
Thanks CTEvS for photographs of human abnormality;
regrets death of Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11184
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.525)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11184,” accessed on 14 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11184.xml
