From Albert Günther 11 June 1873
British Museum
June 11. 1873
My dear Sir
I enclose the copy of a note of mine which I hastened to publish in the Annals, as soon as I had discovered the error into which I had fallen & led you.1 My comfort in the matter is that I may confidently hope that you will not find many other instances in which the communications I have made to you prove to be unreliable.
I was very sorry I could not manage to get away from the Museum to see you when you were in town.2 But there are weeks, & sometimes months, in which I have not a moment left between 9 & 4 o’cl. when I hurry off to my home.
Wallace brought me yesterday a living Phrynosoma from his brother in California, to observe the squirting of blood from the eye. The creature is weakly, & I doubt whether it will pick up sufficient energy of body & mind, to perform the trick in my presence, unless we get some warm sunny weather.3
With kind regards to Mrs Darwin, & with best wishes for your health | Yours ever truly | A Günther
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf. 1864. The reptiles of British India. London: Ray Society.
Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf. 1873. Contribution to our knowledge of Ceratophyrys and Megalophrys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 417–19.
Sherbrooke, Wade C. and Middendorff, George A. III. 2001. Blood-squirting variability in horned lizards Phrynosoma). Copeia (2001): 1114–22.
Summary
Apologises for having given CD some unreliable information.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8942
- From
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- British Museum
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 254
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8942,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8942.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21