To George Gulliver 27 December [1855]
Down Bromley Kent
Decr 27th
My dear Sir
I write one line to say that I have this morning received safely your most kind present of Hewson’s work.1 I have just looked at the Table, & am astounded at the number of the measurements.2
With very sincere thanks | yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
In his letter to Gulliver of 18 December [1855] (Correspondence vol. 5), CD had accepted Gulliver’s offer of The works of William Hewson (Gulliver ed. 1846). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 378).
Gulliver had tabulated comparative measurements of red blood cells of various species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish for his edition of the works of the physiologist William Hewson (Gulliver ed. 1846, pp. 237–44). CD was interested in obtaining measurements of corpuscles of pigeons and dogs (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to George Gulliver, 18 December [1855]; see also Correspondence vol. 6, letter from George Gulliver, 20 January [1856]).
Summary
His thanks for the present [The works of William Hewson, edited by GG, 1846]. [See 1796.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1801A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Gulliver
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- DE 28 1855
- Source of text
- Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1801A,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1801A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)
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