To Peter Martin Duncan 13 April [1868?]1
Down. | Bromley.| Kent. S.E.
Ap 13—
My dear Sir
Sir C. Lyell tells me that you were pleased at receiving some specimens from the Keeling Islands.2 Accordingly I have looked out all the corals which I can find, & I will send them on Thursday mg. to the Geolog. Soc.3
They are not numerous, & I certainly once had more, but I cannot now find them. Such as they are, they may be worth your acceptance, as the habitat & station of each is correctly given in a paper inclosed in the box.4 One specimen in a large, white pill-box is the only one not collected by myself. I think you will understand the catalogue altho’ the numbers are not consecutive.
I suppose you do not care about the soft parts of corals. I have a few notes regarding some of those sent, but I believe that they are so imperfect that they are worth absolutely nothing
Pray believe me my dear Sir | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Duncan, Peter Martin. 1869. The physical geography of Western Europe during the Mesozoic and Cainozoic periods elucidated by their coral faunas. [Read 24 November 1869.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 26 (1870): 51–70.
Duncan, Peter Martin. 1876. Notices of some deep-sea and littoral corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, New-Zealand, Persian Gulf, and Japanese &c. Seas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1876): 428–42.
Journal of researches 2d ed.: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845.
Summary
Promises to send coral specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13802
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Peter Martin Duncan
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13802,” accessed on 13 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13802.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16