From P. M. G. Egerton 17 April 1876
Oulton Park, | Tarporley.
April 17 76
Dear Darwin
I only received your letter of the 18th of March on Saturday,1 as my Town residence has been invaded by painters for the last month and every thing in confusion. I do not anticipate much from the examination of the microscopic structure of vertebral centra, but I should be very happy to help Professor Hope with materials if I had them. I could find, I have no doubt, some vertebrae in my drawers but I could not give the generic or specific names to those of the Selachians. Most of our older fishes were notochordal.2 If there were any chance of the Professor paying a visit to this country he should have the free run of my collection, but I hardly think I could select any thing that would help him. If this method of investigation is to give good results, the Professor ought to be blindfolded as to the age and genera of the specimens examined in order to preclude foregone conclusions. I was delighted to see your signature once again and hope that your health has not suffered from the late severe weather3
Believe me | Yours very sincerely | P M Grey Egerton
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cope, Edward Drinker. 1875. The vertebrata of the Cretaceous formations of the West. (Vol. 2 of Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories, edited by F. V. Hayden.) Washington: Government Printing Office.
Summary
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10455
- From
- Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Oulton Park
- Source of text
- DAR 163: 8
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10455,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10455.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24