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To Richard Owen   [January – 23 March 1850]1

Down Farnborough Kent

Tuesday

My dear Owen

I am very much obliged, but am sorry, that you should have had the trouble about Ehrenbergs parcel— I enclose stamps which will I hope be convenient mode of payment to you.—

Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin

I am in the middle of the “Limbs” with uncommon interest—2 The manner in which you work out the toes strikes me as quite beautiful. Whoever would have thought that a great Cart-horse walked on four fingers!—

I read also with great interest some little time ago your kind present of Parthenogenesis3

1
Dated on the basis of CD’s reference to R. Owen 1849a and 1849b, which were recorded as having been read on 23 March 1850 (DAR 119; Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV).
2
R. Owen 1849a, published in February 1849 (see letter to Richard Owen, [24 February 1849], n. 5).
3
R. Owen 1849b, published 14–28 July 1849 (Publishers’ Circular, no. 285, 1 August 1849). The term ‘parthenogenesis’ was Owen’s invention. CD’s annotated copy of the book is in the Darwin Library– CUL.

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1231,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1231