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From Benjamin Silliman Sr and Benjamin Silliman Jr   24 May 1839

Yale College U.S.

May 24 1839

To Charles Darwin Esq. & W. J. Hamilton Esq. Secretaries of the Geological Society | Somerset House | London

Gentlemen

We have the honor to acknowledge the rec’t of Nos 56, 57, 58., & 59 of the Proceedings of the Geol Society,1 and would hereby offer our thanks to the Society for their kindness in forwarding them.

We learn by your acknowledgements that the American Journal2 is recived by the Society with tolerable regularity; if there are any deficiencies in your set we will take great pleasure in supplying them as far as may be in our power on being informed what they are.

If it be consistent with the rules of the Society we should be very glad to receive from you the nos of your ‘proceedings’ which never reached us as follows— Nos 1 to 5, 7 & 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 46, 47.3 Our agent in London for the transmission of English things to this country is now Mr Putnam4 house of Wiley & Putnam No 35 Paternoster Row, American Booksellers, who will pay for the above if called on, and will forward to us any thing addressed to us to this country

With great Respect your | Obliged & Obedient Svts | B Silliman | B Silliman, Jr. Editors Am Jour. | Science—

Footnotes

These issues are from the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London vols. 2 and 3 and all date from 1838.
The American Journal of Science and Arts had been founded by Benjamin Silliman Sr.
The first issue of the Proceedings was for the 1826–7 session; issue 47 was for the 1836–7 session. Another hand has inserted ‘4’ before ‘5’, and all the numbers from 4 to 47 have been ticked. A note at the top of the letter reads: ‘Answered 10th Aug. 1839 Proceed sent’.

Summary

Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.

Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-511F
From
Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr
To
Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton
Sent from
Yale
Source of text
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 511F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-511F.xml

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