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To Williams and Norgate?   6 March [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

March 6th

Dear Sir

Please order & send to 57 Queen Anne St.— “La première partie du troisième volume de Histoire Nat. générale des regnes organiques” by Is. Geoffroy St. Hilaire.2

I see that it is just published.

Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
Dated by the reference to the third volume of I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1854–62.
2
The third volume of I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1854–62 was issued in two parts, the first of which was published in 1860. The volume requested by CD includes discussions of the origin of domestic animals, teratology, and hybridisation. In the back of his copy, CD noted: ‘I have selected only for my 1st volume *on Dom Animals [interl blue crayon]—   Must be all gone over again & Indexed Especially for Hybridisation very good.—’ CD’s annotated copy of the entire work is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Bibliography

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1854–62. Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques, principalement étudiée chez l’homme et les animaux. 3 vols. Paris: Victor Masson.

Summary

Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2723
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Williams & Norgate
Sent from
Down
Source of text
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2723,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2723.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8

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