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To Theodor Eimer   21 October [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 21st

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your great kindness in having sent me your work on Beroe.2 I never saw anything more beautiful & clear than your drawings of the intimate structure of the parts.

With my best thanks & respect | I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by year of publication of Eimer 1873–4; see n. 2, below.
2
CD refers to the first part of Eimer’s book Zoologische Studien auf Capri (Eimer 1873–4); CD’s copy has not been found. Beroe ovata is a species of comb jelly in the family Beroidae (phylum Ctenophora).

Bibliography

Eimer, Theodor. 1873–4. Zoologische Studien auf Capri. I Über Beroë ovatus. II Lacerta muralis coerulea. Ein Beitrag zur Darwin’schen Lehre. 2 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.

Summary

Thanks for TE’s work on [Beroe?] with illustrations of its parts [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 1 (1873)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9690
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9690,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9690.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)

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