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To Albert Gaudry   28 December 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Dec 28 . 1877

Dear Sir,

I thank you sincerely for your never-failing kindness in sending me your valuable works. I am sure that the one received to day will interest me greatly, judging from the extract given in the “Revue des Sciences”—1

I remain, dear Sir | with the greatest respect | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
Gaudry sent a copy of his book Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques: mammifères tertiaires (Series in the animal world over geological time: tertiary mammals; Gaudry 1878). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. An extract from the book, ‘Les ruminants et leurs parents’ (Ruminants and their parents; Gaudry 1877), appeared in La Revue scientifique de la France et de l’étranger, 15 December 1877; CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Bibliography

Gaudry, Albert. 1877. Les ruminants et leurs parents. La Revue scientifique de la France et de l’étranger 2d ser. 7: 553–67.

Gaudry, Albert. 1878. Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques: mammifères tertiaires. Paris: Librairie Hachette.

Summary

Thanks AG for his kindness in sending his valuable work [Les enchaînements du monde animal vol. 1 (1878)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11293
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 6)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11293,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11293.xml

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