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Darwin Correspondence Project

To T. L. Brunton   28 April 1879

Down | Beckenham Kent.

Ap. 28 1879

My dear Sir

I thank you cordially for your note & the journal & return it by this same post.1 I have copied out the passage marked, & have looked to the Zoonomia: It certainly seems a good instance of Dr. D’s acute power of observation.2 Should you have anything further to communicate I shall be truly obliged.

My Dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. I have been out of luck in not finding you at home when I called there two times when last in London—3 But I called only for the pleasure of 10 minutes conversation—

Footnotes

Brunton had pointed out that Erasmus Darwin appeared to have anticipated a modern discovery in a passage in his medical work Zoonomia (see letter from T. L. Brunton, 26 April [1879] and n. 4). CD referred to this and Brunton’s discussion of the modern discovery in Erasmus Darwin, p. 109.
CD was in London from 27 February to 5 March 1879 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Bibliography

Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.

Summary

Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12015
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 143: 167
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12015,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12015.xml

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