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To James Brown Gibson   [after 29 June 1862]1

Sir

I hope that you will permit me to return to you my sincere & cordial thanks for the kind manner with which you have acceded to my wishes in the endeavour the endeavour to find out whether there exists any re— [between] complexion & liability & tropical diseases.—2 Without your aid nothing whatever could have been done.—

The result may not [illeg] turn out a complete failure; but I have not ventured to make my request without [mature] consideration.—

With my sincere thanks for all your kindness   I [hope] to remain | Your oblig Servt, | C. Darwin

Summary

Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3361
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
James Brown Gibson
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
DAR 96: 4
Physical description
ADraftS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3361,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3361.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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