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DCP-LETT-1653

To John Davy   25 March [1855]

Down Farnborough Kent

March 25

My dear Sir

I arrived home late last night, (bringing with me the Angler & his Friend)1 & found your Paper2 here; I write this merely in case that you might be surprised that I had not earlier acknowledged its safe arrival.—

I assure you I feel much pleased & flattered by the form you have done me the honour of putting the communication under.3

In two or three days I will forward it to the Royal Socy & do myself the pleasure of writing to you again.—

In Haste pray believe me | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The title of Davy 1855. CD recorded having read it on 25 April 1855 (Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 10).
2
See letter from John Davy, 21 March 1855, which was intended to be communicated by CD to the Royal Society. It was later published as Davy 1856.
3
The paper was written in epistolary style addressed to CD. It explained the results of experiments that Davy stated had been suggested to him by CD.

Summary

Will forward JD’s paper to the Royal Society ["On the ova of salmon", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 146 (1856): 21–9].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1653
From
Darwin, C. R.
To
Davy, John
Sent from
Down
Physical description
2pp

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1653,” accessed on 27 September 2016, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-1653

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