To T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]1
Down | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
June 20
My dear Huxley
You were so kind as to say that you would lend me Ecker Icones Phy. (Part with Pl 30) & Bischoff Hund-eies (Part with Pl. 41) to get the embryos copied for engraving—2 I shd. keep the books only for a week.— Will you have kindness to send them by parcel Delivery Coy, to 6 Queen Anne St Cavendish Sqe. to be there on Thursday 23d, when we come to London for a week—3
If I do not hear to the contrary, I hope you will let me pay you my early Sunday call on the 26th—
I will caution Mr Ford to be very careful with your Books.—4
Ever yours | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bischoff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm. 1845. Entwicklungsgeschichte des Hunde-Eies. Brunswick: F. Vieweg und sohn.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Wagner, Rudolph. 1851–9. Icones physiologicae. Erläuterungstafeln zur Physiologie und Entwickelungsgeschichte. 2d edition, revised and edited by Alexander Ecker. Leipzig: Leopold Voss.
Summary
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6788
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Caerdeon Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6788,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6788.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18