To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 22 July [1866?]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
July 22
Dear & honoured Sir
I beg leave to return you my sincere thanks for your two papers on the Tuff of Mexico & on the “Organisations-Präparate”, with its beautiful illustrations, shewing for what a wonderful length of time your method has preserved the specimens.2
I feel sincerely honoured by your kind remembrance of me & for the valuable assistance which many years ago you were so good as to afford me3
With the most sincere respect | I remain dear Sir | yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1862. Über die seit 27 Jahren noch wohl erhaltenen Organisations-Präparate des mikroskopischen Lebens. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1862): 39–74.
Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1866. Über einen Phytolitharien-Tuff als Gebirgsart im Toluca-Thale von Mexico. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1866): 158–68.
South America: Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846.
Summary
Thanks CGE for two papers and for his assistance of many years ago.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5163
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5163,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5163.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14