To Leonard Jenyns [May–September 1842]
12 Upper Gower St
Wednesday
Dear Jenyns.—
I am very glad to hear the notes to White are only the forerunner of a separate work— I hope you will repeat in it any original matter of your own, that first appears in Whites Selbourne1 —so that one may have all your’s in one vol. together.
Your note on the Furnarius appears to me just the thing.— it is Furn. cunicularius of G. R. Gray,2 although according to my notions, he has no more right to append his name to this couplet than the Great Mogul has.— Stricklands laws will I think be useful in checking the egoism of some authors.—3
Yours most truly | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Jenyns, Leonard, ed. 1843. The natural history of Selbourne by the late Rev. Gilbert White, M.A. A new edition, with notes. London.
Summary
Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.
Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-627
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield
- Sent from
- London, Upper Gower St, 12
- Source of text
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 627,” accessed on 26 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-627.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
