To T. H. Thomas 22 October 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Oct 22d 1880
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you & to Prof. Schaafhausen for the photographs, which are very interesting.—1 You were indeed fortunate to find such fine foot-marks, which seem to me excellently engraved.2
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Sollas, W. J. 1879. On some three-toed footprints from the Triassic conglomerate of South Wales. [Read 9 April 1879.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35: 511–16.
Thomas, Thomas Henry. 1879. Tridactyl uniserial ichonites in the Trias of Newton Nottage, near Porthcawl, Glamorgan. [Read 16 January 1879.] Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society 10 (1878): 73–91.
Summary
Thanks correspondent and H. J. Schaaffhausen for interesting photographs of fine footprints.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12770
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Thomas
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 4 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- The National Library of Wales (NLW MS. 3127C no.12)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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