To Patrick Geddes 27 March 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Mar 27 1882
Dear Sir
I have read several of your biological papers with very great interest, and I have formed, if you will permit me to say so, a high opinion of your abilities. I can entertain no doubt that you will continue to do excellent service in advancing our knowledge in several branches of science Therefore I believe that you are well fitted to occupy any chair of natural history, for I am convinced that example is fully as important as precept to students1
I remain, dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Recommends PG for chair of natural history.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13746
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Patrick Geddes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (MS.10522)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp & AdraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13746,” accessed on 7 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13746.xml
