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To Geological Society of London   [3 January 1844]1

Down Bromley | Kent

Wednesday

Dear Sir

The Geological map of S. America was not sent me with D’Orbigny’s work—2 would you please send it me and a card of the Evening meetings 3 —either by Post, or if there are any parcels waiting for me, by “Down Coach”, from Bolt-in-Tun Fleet St.—4

Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

Coach starts daily at 3 olock.

1
Dated from surrounding letters in the Geological Society Letter Book, all of which are dated in the first week of January 1844.
2
Orbigny 1835–47, vol. 3, pt 3: Géologie.
3
CD was vice-president of the Society in 1844.
4
A tavern from which coaches started for the south of England.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 Evening] ‘E’ over ‘e’
1.3 "Down] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-728,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-728