To Benjamin Silliman Jr 4 December [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
Decr. 4th
My dear Sir
I must trouble you with a few lines to thank you very sincerely for your note with some additional information on the Cave-Rat2 & for your printed letter, which I well remember reading some years ago in your Journal.3 Several of your statements in your letter have interested me much, & the whole subject of these cave blind animals seems to me eminently curious.—
I am much obliged to you for telling me about Prof. Dana;4 pray give him my very kind remembrances; I believe no one, except his personal friends, will more rejoice at his perfect recovery than I shall.—
I am preparing a new corrected Edition of my “Origin” & shall take the liberty to quote a few words from your letter on the Cave-Rat.—5
With sincere thanks & respect, pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 3d ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 3d edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1861.
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 11: 332–9.
Summary
Thanks for information on cave rat.
CD is obliged for news of J. D. Dana’s recovery.
Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3007
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Benjamin Silliman, Jr
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3007,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3007.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
