To Gustaf Retzius 28 August 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Aug. 28th 1879
Dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for the present of your magnificent work, ‘Finska Kranien’, which it is an honour to any country to have published, & it is a great honour to me to have received.—1
I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Retzius had sent his Finska kranier; jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi (Finnish skulls; with some natural and literary studies, in other areas of Finnish anthropology; Retzius 1878); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.
Bibliography
Retzius, Gustaf. 1878. Finska kranier; jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi. Stockholm: Central-Tryckeriet.
Summary
CD is honoured to receive the magnificent work Finska Kranier (1878).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12203A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 35)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12203A,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12203A.xml
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