To J. de C. Sowerby 4 May [1850]
Down Farnborough Kent
May 4th—
The Pal. Soc. have just settled not to give me more than I Plate full of foreign species,1 & therefore, until I see how many will pack in one Plate, I shd be glad if you would not draw Pollicipes Hausmanni, P. carinatus & P. elongatus & perhaps not even P. validus.—2
I am very anxious to get on.—
Will you kindly send me one line to say exactly what progress you have made: I have some few more specimens to bring up.
Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1324
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James de Carle Sowerby
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1324,” accessed on 11 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1324.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
