To The Royal Geographical Society [30 July 1844 – 1 October 1846]1
Down near Bromley | Kent
Tuesday Morning
My dear Sir
I shd feel particularly obliged to you, if you would take the trouble to search to see whether there is in the possession of the Society, a Spanish Map, by “La Cruz”2 of the Cordillera of central Chile near St. Jago: It is one of the best, & I am in the greatest need of it.— If you can find it, wd you send it directed to me, at the Athenæum, not later than 12 oclock on Thursday when I shall call there on my way home.
My dear Sir | Yours very truly | C. Darwin
P.S. Shd. you have any map, of the Cordillera of Chile, I shd be very glad to see it.—
The rock-specimens have not been yet sent to the Geolog. Soc. for me.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Cruz, Luis de la. 1835. Viage a su costa, del alcalde provincial del muy ilustre cabildo de la Concepción de Chile … desde el fuerte de Ballenar, frontera de dicha Concepción, por tierras desconocidas … hasta la cuidad de Buenos-Aires. Buenos Aires.
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
Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-767
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Royal Geographical Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 767,” accessed on 9 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-767.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3
