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To Yves Delage   29 May 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

May 29th 1881

Dear Sir

I am much indebted to you for your great kindness in having sent me your work, with its magnificent illustrations, on the Circulatory apparatus of the sessile-eyed Crustaceans.—1

With much respect, I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
CD’s copy of Delage’s doctoral thesis, Contribution à l’étude de l’appareil circulatoire des crustacés édriophthalmes marins (Contribution to the study of the circulatory system of marine edriophthalmic crustaceans; Delage 1881) is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Edriophthalma are a former taxonomic group, roughly equivalent to the orders Isopoda and Amphipoda, whose members possess sessile compound eyes.

Bibliography

Delage, Yves. 1881. Contribution à l’étude de l’appareil circulatoire des crustacés édriophthalmes marins. (Thèses présentées à la faculté des sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès sciences naturelles.) Paris: A. Hennuyer.

Summary

Thanks YD [for Contribution à l’étude de l’appareil circulatoire des crustacés édriopthalmes marins (1881)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13183
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Yves Delage
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 33)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13183,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13183.xml

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