To Richard Owen [January – 23 March 1850]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Tuesday
My dear Owen
I am very much obliged, but am sorry, that you should have had the trouble about Ehrenbergs parcel— I enclose stamps which will I hope be convenient mode of payment to you.—
Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin
I am in the middle of the “Limbs” with uncommon interest—2 The manner in which you work out the toes strikes me as quite beautiful. Whoever would have thought that a great Cart-horse walked on four fingers!—
I read also with great interest some little time ago your kind present of Parthenogenesis3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
CD regrets the trouble RO has had about C. G. Ehrenberg’s parcel.
He is reading On the nature of limbs [1849] with uncommon interest and admires the way Owen worked out the toes.
Also has read On parthenogenesis [1849] with great interest.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1231
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Owen
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1231,” accessed on 19 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1231.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
