To Hubert Airy [before 21 January 1873]1
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My dear Mr Airy
If Sir Geo Airy thinks it was right to communicate your paper I shall be happy to do so, & I sincerely hope it may be printed.2
Signed Ch Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hubert Airy, 21 January 1873.
CD communicated Airy’s paper on phyllotaxy (Airy 1873) to the Royal Society of London. CD also refers to Airy’s father, George Biddell Airy. See letter from Hubert Airy, 3 January 1873.
Bibliography
Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. Communicated by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 21 (1872–3): 176–9.
Summary
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8744
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hubert Airy
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899)
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8744,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8744.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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