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To Leopold Würtenberger   6 March 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]

March 6th 1880

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your present of your “Studien .... Ammoniten”, & am delighted that you have found time to publish your valuable results.—1 I hope soon to read your book, but German is always slow work with me.—

With much respect, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
Würtenberger had sent his Studien über die Stammesgeschichte der Ammoniten. Ein geologischer Beweis für die Darwin’sche Theorie (Studies on the phylogeny of ammonites: a geological proof of Darwinian theory; Würtenberger 1880); there are copies in the Darwin Library–CUL and Down. In 1879, CD had given Würtenberger £100 to support his research (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Leopold Würtenberger, 7 February 1879).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12519,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12519