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To W. H. Flower   [after 16 February 1880]1

I am much obliged for the books. I see that they are marked from the Council & if it is proper will you be [so kind] return my sincere thanks to the C for its gift.—2 I shall be glad to read about the skulls, & I daresay you will convert me from my previous state of heresy.—3 Frank & I will both be glad to read [about] the [curiosities] Hunter says on plants.—4 We thoroughly enjoyed your visit here.—5

Yours very sincerely | C. D.

Footnotes

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin, 16 February 1880.
2
Flower had sent Flower 1879 to CD and Hunter 1860 to both Francis and CD (see letter from W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin, 16 February 1880 and nn. 1 and 2). The council was that of the Royal College of Surgeons, where Flower was professor of comparative anatomy and curator of the Hunterian Museum.
3
CD refers to Flower’s work on human osteology (Flower 1879) and probably alludes to some remarks he made on the subject while Flower was visiting (see n. 5, below).
4
John Hunter’s Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860) was a collection of notes made by Hunter that were later transcribed from a manuscript loaned to the Royal College of Surgeons (see letter from W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin, 16 February 1880 and n. 2).
5
Flower and his wife, Georgiana Rosetta Flower, visited Down from 14 to 16 February 1880 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Bibliography

Flower, William Henry. 1879. Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Part I. Man: Homo sapiens, Linn. London: the College.

Hunter, John. 1860. Memoranda on vegetation. London: Taylor and Francis.

Summary

Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12505
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Henry Flower
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
DAR 202: 19v
Physical description
ADraftS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12505,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12505.xml

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