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To A. C. L. G. Günther   21 December [1867]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Dec 21st

My dear Sir

Very many thanks for your note. You give me exactly the information which I wanted. I have looked at your Plates & Text & the cases are capital & quite new to me.— It was odd & stupid in me not to think of looking for this object to your work.—2

With sincere thanks | Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. C. L. G. Günther, 19 December 1867.
In his letter of 19 December 1867, Günther referred CD to plates and passages in his book on Indian reptiles (Günther 1864) for information about sexual differences.

Bibliography

Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf. 1864. The reptiles of British India. London: Ray Society.

Summary

Thanks AG for information.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-5735
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5735,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5735.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15

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