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Darwin Correspondence Project

To H. G. Bronn   13 April [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

Ap. 13

Dear & Honoured Sir

I write in haste to catch the Post just to say that I received this morning your “Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung”2 & two copies of your “Morphologische Studien”3 (one of which I will give to some good man)4 & likewise your Portrait.

For all these most kind gifts I most heartily thank you.—

With sincere respect | Yours very truly obliged | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Dated by the relationship to the letter to H. G. Bronn, 10 April [1860].
Bronn 1858b. See letter to H. G. Bronn, 10 April [1860]. There is a copy in the Darwin Library–CUL.
Bronn 1858a. See letter to H. G. Bronn, 21 March [1860]. There is only one copy of the work in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Summary

Thanks HGB for sending copies of his Untersuchungen [1858] and Morphologische Studien [1858] and for a portrait.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2757
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.207)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2757,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2757.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8

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