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To J. S. Henslow   [20–7] September 1833

Buenos Ayres

September 1833

My dear Henslow

A Spanish friend in Entre Rios has promised to send me a cargo of Bones; if they do arrive here: Mr Lumb has kindly offered to forward them to you.— I leave this as a direction to him, & he will add the name of Ship, date, port &c or whatever is necessary.—

Believe me Yours most truly obliged | Charles Darwin

The Rev:d Professor Henslow

Cambridge University

England.—

Specimens of Natural History1

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CD left this letter with Edward Lumb to be forwarded with the cargo of bones to which it refers. The letter was not despatched until 2 May 1834, when Lumb wrote to Henslow telling him that a case of specimens with part of the head of a ‘Megatherium’ was being forwarded to him. That shipment, however, was not the one referred to in this letter, but another, containing a specimen found later in 1833. From Lumb’s letter of 8 May 1834, it appears that the ‘Spanish friend’ is ‘Mr Hooker’. The cargo of bones has not been traced, though Lumb expected it to arrive soon after 2 May 1834.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-216,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-216