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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Daniel McAlpine   10 May 1881

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

May 10th 1881

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for the kind gift of your Zoolog. atlas. I have not knowledge enough to make any criticisms, but I shd. think that the work would be most useful to students. I see only one cause of fear that the clearness of the illustrations, might make some idle students neglect practical anatomy.—1 Would it not be well to urge this caution on their attention?—

I remain, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

CD’s copy of McAlpine’s Zoological atlas (McAlpine 1881) is in the Darwin Library–Down. In an unsigned review in Nature, 26 May 1881, p. 77, the reviewer noted that the various systems were ‘well represented’.

Bibliography

McAlpine, Daniel. 1881. Zoological atlas (including comparative anatomy): with practical directions and explanatory text, for the use of students. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Johnston.

Summary

Thanks for DM’s [Zoological atlas (1881)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13154
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Daniel McAlpine
Sent from
Down
Source of text
State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6273 Box 289(c) 5)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13154,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13154.xml

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