From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny [June – July 1846]
“In order to arrive at satisfactory results in an undertaking so vast,1 I shall need the assistance of all persons who are interested in the advance of geology, and I trust to your procuring for me in England many correspondents willing to exchange the fossil shells of various formations for such portions of my works on Palæontology as they may most require. I wish, for instance, to obtain, 1st, fossils of the Crag and London Clay, and 2nd, those of the Cretaceous formations of the Isle of Wight and Blackdown; but, above all, the fossils of your Carboniferous, Devonian and Silurian beds.”
Footnotes
Summary
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-982A
- From
- Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 982A,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-982A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3