To Thomas Bell [26 April – August 1845]1
Down
Saturday
My dear Bell
Would you kindly take the trouble to send me a line (to 7. Park St. Grosvenor Square) to tell me Bibron’s2 address, without indeed, which wd be much better, you could tell me the two points, I am anxious about.—viz, the name of the Trigonocephalus3 from B. Blanca and secondly whether there be more than one species of snake at the Galapagos, & whether such have a S. American physiognomy.4
I am right, in thinking that you sent all my snakes to Bibron?
My reason for wanting to know is that I am preparing a second Edit. of my Journal for Murray’s Colonial Library.
I hope you are well; does not this rain gladden your heart, when you think of the meadows of Selbourne?5
Pray give my kind compliments to Mrs. Bell, and believe me | Ever yours truly | C. Darwin
Wd you let me have a line soon.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Journal of researches 2d ed.: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. 2d edition, corrected, with additions. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845.
Reptiles: Reptiles. Pt 5 of The zoology of the voyage of HMS Beagle. By Thomas Bell. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1843.
Summary
Asks for Gabriel Bibron’s address. He has two questions about snakes in S. America for which he wants answers, as he is preparing a new edition of his Journal of researches.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-848
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Bell
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 848,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-848.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3