To ? 15 February [1872–4]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb. 15
My dear Sir
Will you be so kind as to allow my son to look for a paper in some Transactions at your Society. I daresay you could refer him to a paper by Prof. Haughton published (I think) in the Transactions, on the anatomy of the Ostrich.—2
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Haughton, Samuel. 1864–6. Notes on animal mechanics. [Read 11 January, 23 May, and 13 June 1864, 26 June 1865, and 23 April 1866.] Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 8 (1861–4): 458–71; 9 (1864–6) 50–61, 85–101, 268–94, 469–529.
Macalister, Alexander. 1864. On the anatomy of the ostrich (Struthio camelus). [Read 11 April 1864.] Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 9 (1864–6): 1–24.
Summary
Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9292
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9292,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9292.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)