To Albert Günther 23 March [1868]1
4 Chester Place | Regents Park | N. W.
March 23d
Dear Günther
Will you be so kind as to give the enclosed slip to Mr Ford, as I forgot to give it.2
I have been thinking of your case of the banded snake; & though I do not want the fact at present, it is so good that I shd. like to secure it.—3
What is name of snake? Do the longitudinal bands become interrupted & pass into transverse bands in the vars. of the same species, or in allied species?
In the same genus or in closely allied genera, are some species always longitudinally & other species always transversely banded?
I shd. be grateful for an answer at any time.—
Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Gunther, Albert E. 1972. The original drawings of George Henry Ford. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6 (1971–4): 139–42.
Summary
Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6043
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- Sent from
- London, Chester Place, 4
- Source of text
- Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6043,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6043.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16