To Geological Society of London [3 January 1844]1
Down Bromley | Kent
Wednesday
Dear Sir
The Geological map of S. America was not sent me with D’Orbigny’s work—2 would you please send it me and a card of the Evening meetings 3 —either by Post, or if there are any parcels waiting for me, by “Down Coach”, from Bolt-in-Tun Fleet St.—4
Yours faithfully | C. Darwin
Coach starts daily at 3 olock.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’. 1835–47. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale (le Brésil, la République orientale de l’Uruguay, la République Argentine, la Patagonie, la République du Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826 … 1833. 6 vols. in 7 and 4 atlases. Paris and Strasbourg: Pitois-Levrault et Cie, P. Bertrand.
Summary
Asks that A. d’Orbigny’s geological map of S. America be sent to him with a card of the Society’s evening meetings.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-728
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Geological Society of London
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/8/92)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 728,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-728.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3
