To C. G. Semper 18 July 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 18th. 1877
My dear Sir
I received safely this morning your Memoir together with your kind note. The figures are wonderful, & I find that I understood rightly parts of what I saw in the slides which you sent me. What a very curious reaction between the fish & the slug! I suppose that the latter remains motionless if it sees with its dorsal eyes the fish.1
I can assure you that I feel deeply the honour of so remarkable a Memoir having been dedicated to me.
I wish you a pleasant & successful expedition to the U. States, & remain | My dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11061
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carl Gottfried Semper
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11061,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11061.xml
