Darwin, C. R. to Woodward, S. P.
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Thanks for Supplement to SPW's Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW's work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."
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15 May
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[Returning thanks for the Supplement to his correspondent's Manual of the Mollusca, eloquently praising the book and Woodward's labours in the cause of science]
‘What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! & how marvellously cheap.— I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science.’
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- f1 1875.f1
The date as given in Sotheby's catalogue. It is corroborated by the publication date of part three of Woodward 1851–6 (see n. 2, below). - +
- f2 1875.f2
The third part of Woodward's Manual of the Mollusca (Woodward 1851–6), entitled ‘Supplement to the rudimentary treatise on recent fossil shells’, was published in May 1856 (Publishers' Circular, 2 June 1856, p. 227). A copy of the entire work is in the Darwin Library–CUL. The third part, covering the geographical distribution of shells, is heavily annotated.