To Romain Moniez 10 October 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington S.E.R.)
October 10th 1880
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your great kindness in having sent me a copy of your work on parasitic worms.1 The subject has always interested me, & I am sure that I shall profit by reading your work.2
Believe me Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Moniez, Romain. 1880. Essai monographique sur les cysticerques. Vol. 3, fascicule 1 of Travaux de L’Institut zoologique de Lille. Paris: Octave Doin.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of R-LM’s book on parasitic worms. [Perhaps Essai monographique sur les cysticerques (1880) in vol. 3 of the Travaux of the Institut Zoologique de Lille.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12751A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Romain-Louis (Romain) Moniez
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Pierre Bergé (dealers) (22 November 2010, lot 63)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12751A,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12751A.xml
