To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]1
Dear Owen
As my servant is passing your way, I send a perfect revise of Toxodon. I have read it over, & marked the very few errata which caught my eye, which may help you in your final revision.—
I hope with all my heart you will return quite comfortable, and you must not work so hard, as usual, for some time.—
Yours most truly | Chas. Darwin.
Thursday 28th
36 Grt. Marlbro’ St.—
NB. I altered the 12,000. toises into 12,00 toises2 which I suspect is right, though it did not occur to me, when I first read it over.— Perhaps you had better just refer to Cuvier—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cuvier, Georges. 1812. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, où l’on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs espèces d’animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites. 4 vols. Paris: Deterville.
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-395
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Owen
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 395,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-395.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
