From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny   [June – July 1846]

Summary

ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-982A

From

Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny

To

Charles Robert Darwin

Date

[June – July 1846]

Source of text

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59

Physical description

inc

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Orbigny, Alcide d’