To W. H. Flower 30 June 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 30. 73
My dear Professor Flower,
I am much obliged to you for having kindly sent me your lecture, which has interested me greatly.—1 The manner in which you show the relations of the recent & extinct forms of the 2 great groups of the Ungulata, makes the whole case wonderfully clear & striking.2
With many thanks | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Flower’s lecture, ‘On palaeontological evidence of the modifications of animal forms’ (Flower 1873), was delivered on 25 April 1873 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
The division of the ungulates (hoofed animals) into two orders, Perissodactyla (odd-toed) and Artiodactyla (even-toed), had been established by Richard Owen (see Flower 1873, p. 97).
Summary
Thanks for sending WHF’s lecture, ‘On palaeontological evidence of the modifications of animal forms’ (Flower 1873).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8958F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Henry Flower
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8958F,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8958F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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