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To Richard Owen   [1847?]1

Down Farnborough | Kent

Sunday

My dear Owen

Will you be so good as to endeavour to give me 12 an hour on Tuesday between 12 past 12 & 12 past one oclock. It will be a great kindness, as I am most anxious for your opinion on a few zoological points.2

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The conjectured date is based on an 1847 watermark. During that year CD made frequent visits to London to attend Geological Society council meetings (Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix I).
2
Caroline Owen recorded that CD often called at the Owens’ London home for discussions with Richard Owen. On 7 January 1847 she wrote (R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 292): Mr. Darwin was here very early, before breakfast. He and R. had a long discussion on the subject of R.’s views on osteology and the archetype. After breakfast R. brought out his ‘Broadsheet of Osteology’ [synonyms of bones]. Mr. Darwin quite saw the force of that.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Owen, Richard Startin. 1894. The life of Richard Owen … With the scientific portions revised by C. Davies Sherborn; also an essay on Owen’s position in anatomical science by the Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. 2 vols. London: John Murray.

Summary

Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1044
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Richard Owen
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1044,” accessed on 24 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1044.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4

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