To Pieter Harting 21 March 1871
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Mar. 21 1871
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for your great kindness in sending me your fine Memoir on Potérion.1
With my best thanks & much respect | I beg leave to remain | dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
CD refers to P. Harting 1870; CD’s copy has not been found. Poterion is a synonym of Cliona (a sponge genus) in the family Clionidae (World register of marine species, www.marinespecies.org (accessed 10 September 2009)).
Bibliography
Harting, Pieter. 1870. Mémoire sur le genre Potérion. Utrecht: C. van der Post, Jr.
Summary
Thanks PH for his memoir on Poterion [Natuurkd. Verh. Utrecht 2 (1870)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7606
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Pieter Harting
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Utrecht University Museum (inv. nr. 635/202.06.1451)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7606,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7606.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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