To Casimir de Candolle 21 October 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Oct 21. 1879
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kind present of your work on the anatomy of leaves, which I will soon read.1 The Plates strike me as wonderfully good, like Photographs, but clearer.—
Pray remember me kindly to your honoured Father2 & believe me, my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Candolle, Casimir de. 1879. Anatomie comparée des feuilles chez quelques familles de Dicotylédones. [Read 6 March 1879.] Mémoires de la Société de physique et d’histoire naturelle de Genève 26 (1877–9): 427–80.
Summary
Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12266
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12266,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12266.xml
