To William Hellier Baily1 5 October 1848
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5 October 1848
[Thanks his correspondent for informing him of the barnacles and asks that they should be sent directed to him to the Geological Society.]
Footnotes
Assistant geologist and artist with the Geological Survey, who had a special interest in palaeontology (Flett 1937). Baily is identified as the recipient in Sotheby’s catalogue.
Bibliography
Flett, John Smith. 1937. The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Summary
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1201
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Hellier Baily
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1201,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1201.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
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