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To A. O. Kovalevsky    28 October 1873

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 28th 1873

Dear & Honoured Sir

I am much obliged for your kindness in having sent me your memoir on the Larvæ of the Ascidians.—1 To receive a gift from you is a very great honour to me.—

With the most profound respect I remain | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
Kovalevsky sent his second work on the larvae of Ascidians (sea squirts), ‘Weitere Studien über die Entwicklung der einfachen Ascidien’ (Further studies on the development of simple Ascidians; Kovalevsky 1871). His first work on the same subject had been sent to CD in 1867 (Kovalevsky 1866; see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 15 March 1867 and n. 6). A heavily annotated copy of Kovalevsky 1866 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL; no copy of Kovalevsky 1871 has been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Kovalevsky, Alexander Onufrievich. 1866b. Entwickelungsgeschichte der einfachen Ascidien. [Read 1 November 1866.] Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 10 (no. 15): 1–19.

Kovalevsky, Alexander Onufrievich. 1871a. Weitere Studien über die Entwicklung der einfachen Ascidien. Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie 7: 101–30.

Summary

Thanks for AOK’s work on the larvae of the Ascidians.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9115F,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/view/letters/DCP-LETT-9115F

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)

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