From F. B. Zincke 8 December 1881
Wherstead Vicarage. Ipswich.
8 Dec 1881
My dear Sir
I have just received a copy of your “Vegetable Mould & Earth Worms” through Mr Murray.1
I offer you my best thanks for this, & for the honour you have done me of placing my name on your pages, which have given mankind so advanced, & so commanding a starting point for the interpretation & intellectual construction of the Cosmos2
I am yrs greatly obliged | & most truly | F Barham Zincke
Footnotes
Bibliography
Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Earthworms.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13538
- From
- Foster Barham Zincke
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Ipswich
- Source of text
- DAR 184: 14
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13538,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13538.xml
