To Armand de Quatrefages 27 March [1863]1
Down. | Bromley Kent. S.E.
March 27th.—
Dear Sir
I thank you most cordially for all your great kindness, the trouble which you have taken, & your most obliging note.—2 The specimens, of which you have obtained the promise from M. Martins will be most interesting to me; & ultimately they shall be deposited in the British Museum.3 When I receive them I will write & thank M. Martins.4 The best plan will be, as you propose, to send them by Railway.
I had heard that your work was to be translated & I heard it with pleasure; but I can take no share of credit, for I am not an active, only a honorary, member of the Society.5
Since writing I have finished, with extreme interest to the end, your admirable work on Metamorphosis.6 How well you are acquainted with the works of English Naturalists, & how generously you bestow honour on them. Mr Lubbock is my neighbour & I have known him since he was a little boy: he is in every way a thoroughly good man; as is my friend Huxley.7 It gave me real pleasure to see you notice their works as you have done.—
With sincere respect & cordial thanks for your great kindness to me, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.
Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4437
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7)
- Physical description
- 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4437,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4437.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11