To G. B. Ercolani 3 March 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
March 3, 77
Dear Sir,
I am much obliged for your great kindness in having sent me your essay on the placenta, a subject on which it is well known that you have worked with great success.1
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Ercolani had sent his essay ‘Sull’unità del tipo anatomico della placenta nei mammiferi e nell’umana specie, e sull’unita fisiologica della nutrizione dei feti in tutti i vertebrati’ (On the unity of anatomical type in the placenta in mammals and the human species and on the physiological unity in the nutrition of foetuses in all vertebrates; Ercolani 1877).
Summary
Thanks GBE for his essay on the placenta [Sull’unità del tipo anatomico della placenta nei mammiferi e nell’umana specie (1877)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10876
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Giovanni Battista Ercolani
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6542)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10876,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10876.xml
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