To Edward Alfred Smith [before 30 June 1869]1
Please to keep carefully the accompanying engraved plates as they are taken from valuable engraved works.2
Please to return these memoranda.
The wood-cuts must be fac-similes, done neatly & lightly
(Pl. 25 from Milne-Edwards) fig. 1 the anterior part of a crab, as much as is included in the pencil outline.3
(Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist. Pl. XI) fig 3a; I think a line drawn across the limb, above & below, where cut off, looks best. Also Fig 9 & 10 from same plate. These 3 figures to be arranged close together on the same block, & in a fitting position4
Four wings of Butterfly, exact copies of AA’ BB’—to be placed much closer together on same block5
(Tab. X from Landois) fig 1 & 2 on same block to be put closer together; in fig 2. all the skin beneath the teeth (as shewn by the pencil line) need not be engraved; alter the letter of reference in fig 1 from s into r.
Fig 3 & 4 to be placed on same block nearer to each other: attend to the dotted line which runs from r to the second nervure, & is not shewn plainly in the engraving; attend to letters of reference.—
Fig 5 on a block by itself. Cut off top of.
Fig 6 & 7 on same block; in fig 7 omit some skin on each side, as shewn by pencil lines.
Fig 8 on block by itself. Give all the letters of reference changing rl into r.6
Ch. Darwin
Down, Beckenham, Kent.—
The Plates can be returned to
C. Darwin
6 Queen Anne St
Cavendish Square7
To be left till called for
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Landois, Hermann. 1867. Die Ton- und Stimmapparate der Insecten in anatomisch-physiologisher und akusticher Beziehung. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 17: 105–84.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Milne-Edwards, Henri. 1834–40. Histoire naturelle des crustacés, comprenant l’anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. 4 vols. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret.
Summary
Sends engraved plates with instructions about illustrations for Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7051
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Alfred Smith
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 81: 35–6
- Physical description
- LS(A) 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7051,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7051.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17