From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 7 Aug 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 58
Summary:
Requests proofs of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Requests proofs of Expression.
His visit to Down.
Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.
Talks of his attempts to describe the course of descent for a part of the animal kingdom, and thanks CD for his help and support.
Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.
Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.
On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.
Regret at reading of Huxley’s death [a false report].