To Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden 2 May [1870]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
May 2nd.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for your kindness & for the honour which you have done me in sending your Geological Report of the Yellowstone River & your Preliminary Field Report on the Colorado & New Mexico.2 I had heard of your Geological researches on the Colorado & was anxious to see the conclusions at which you had arrived, & I am therefore especially obliged to you for having sent me your works.
With much respect & my best thanks, I remain, | Dear Sir, | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for copies of FVH’s "Preliminary field report [of the U. S. Geological Survey] of Colorado and New Mexico" [Am. J. Sci. 49 (1870): 258–63] and Geological report [of the exploration] of the Yellowstone [and Missouri] River[s under the direction of Captain W. F. Reynolds (1869)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7178
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009764)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7178,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7178.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
