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
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Davy, John. 1856. On the vitality of the ova of the Salmonidæ of different ages; in a letter addressed to Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A., V.P.R.S. &c. [Read 7 February 1856.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 8 (1856–7): 27–33.
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
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Davy
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Institution of Great Britain (Box XVII, 210)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1653,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1653.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
