To Williams and Norgate 29 [January 1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
29th
Dear Sir
I enclose draft for your account with my thanks for all your very kind assistance.—2
Please procure for me Agassiz Index Generum— it is a one volume Book & distinct from the Nomenclator.—3
M. Quatrefage is going to send me a book of his through you,4 when it arrives, please send it to 57 Queen Anne St Cavendish Sqe. — Please send there, also, the Index.—5
Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Quatrefages, Armand de. 1859. Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie. Paris: Victor Masson.
Summary
Orders copy of book by Louis Agassiz [Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis (1846)].
Mentions book sent by Quatrefages de Bréau.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2666
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Williams & Norgate
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.194)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2666,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2666.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8