To Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe 5 May [1847]1
Down Farnborough | Kent
May 5th
Dear Sir
With this note, I send the parcel for Prof Bunsen, which you said you would be so good as to take to him.2 It has turned out rather larger than I anticipated, but I thought it best to send a pretty good suite of specimens.—3 I can hardly express how sorry I was to hear, upon my return home, that you had had the great trouble of coming here. I only hope that you had some other call to this neighbourhood.— I most sincerely regret that I was not at home to have had the pleasure of receiving you.—
Pray believe me | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin To | Dr. H. Kolbe.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard. 1851. Ueber die Processe der vulkanischen Gesteinsbildungen Islands. Annalen der Physik und Chemie 3d ser. 83: 197–272.
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard. 1853. Recherches sur la formation des roches volcaniques en Islande. Annales de Chimie et de Physique 3d ser. 38: 215–300.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Summary
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1569
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1569,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1569.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4