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To Joseph Reay Greene?1   24 September [1861]2

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24 September

‘I was but lately wishing to read some treatise up to the present mark, on these animals. I have cut the pages & can clearly see that your work will much interest & instruct me …’

Footnotes

1
The identity of the correspondent is suggested by the catalogue description, which states that CD was ‘returning thanks for the gift of his correspondent’s treatise on Coelenterata’. There is a copy of Greene’s Manual of the sub-kingdom Cœlenterata (the second part of Greene 1859–61) in the Darwin Library–Down.
2
The year is established by the year of publication of the volume mentioned in the letter (see n. 1, above).

Bibliography

Greene, Joseph Reay. 1859–61. Manual of the animal kingdom. Pt 1: Protozoa. Pt 2: Cœlenterata. London. [Vols. 9,10]

Summary

Thanks for gift of treatise on Coelenterata [? Manual of the sub-kingdom Coelenterata (1861)]. "… I was but lately wishing to read some treatise up to the present mark, on these animals. I have cut the pages & can clearly see that your work will much interest & instruct me".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3265
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Joseph Reay Greene
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 December 1965)
Physical description
ALS ** 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3265,” accessed on 1 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3265.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9

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