To Henry Walter Bates 18 December [1866]1
Down Bromley | Kent
Dec. 18th
Dear Bates
Will you kindly do me a favour?— Mr Blyth tells me that in 23d vol. of your R. G. Journal, there is a letter from Commander R?/Butakoft to Sir R. Murchison, in which the tameness of the deer on recently visited Isld. in Lake Aral is mentioned.2 Now if passage is quite short, will you have it copied for me, with man’s name—proper volume, date, of vol. & page.— If passage is long, can you send me Vol. by Post & it shall soon be returned, as I want it soon.—
Forgive me troubling you | & believe me | Dear Bates | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Butakoff, Aleksey Ivanovich. 1852. Survey of the Sea of Aral. By Commander Alexey Butakoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy. Communicated by Sir Roderick I. Murchison. [Read 13 December 1852.] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 23 (1853): 93–101.
Summary
Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5312
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Walter Bates
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5312,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5312.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
