To Charles Stokes [1839 – September 1842]
Wednesday
My dear Stokes
I send you my few observations of Fungia, exactly as I made them, with merely corrections of arrangement & style: my comparisons with Actinia & Caryophyllia were written on the spot.—1 Pray be so kind as to make any improvements in style or names of parts as you think fit2
Believe me | Most truly Yours | C. Darwin 12 Upper Gower St
Footnotes
The observations referred to are in CD’s manuscript diary of observations on zoology of the places visited during the voyage, DAR 31.2: 345, ‘Tahiti’.
CD had consulted Stokes before sailing in the Beagle. In his list of suggestions from various naturalists, CD noted: ‘Humming birds from Juan Fernandez & every thing especially from Gallipago. Mr. Stokes’ and ‘Species of Fungias. ascertain from fleshy parts; & propagation: found in shallow water: Mr Stokes.—’ (DAR 29.3: 78). No descriptions of CD’s Fungia specimens have been found.
Summary
Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-478
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Stokes
- Sent from
- London, Upper Gower St, 12
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 478,” accessed on 7 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-478.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
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