To Ludwig Rütimeyer 20 February 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb 20 1874
Dear Sir
I write a line to thank you for the renewed proof of your kindness in having sent me your Essay on living & fossil Turtles;1 & I have no doubt that this is as valuable as your many other Essays—
My dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1873. Ueber den Bau von Schale und Schädel bei lebenden und fossilen Schildkröten. Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 6: 3–137.
Summary
Thanks for LR’s essay on living and fossil turtles [Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel 9 (1873): 439–41].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9306
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 6)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9306,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9306.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
