To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 3 November 1855]
I earnestly hope that “C.” of Winchester1 will give some more particulars regarding the fall of shells at Osborne. Were any of the shells living? Over how wide an area did they fall? During how long a time are they believed to have fallen? At what hour and on what day? Did only one kind of shell fall? I hope “C.” will forgive me for suggesting to him how very desirable it is that so extraordinary and very interesting a fact should be authenticated by the narrator’s name. It is really almost a duty towards the science of natural history to do so. Were the Zua identified by any good conchologist?—this seems to me an important point.2 C. D., Down.
Footnotes
Summary
CD requests further details about a rain of shells on the Isle of Wight reported by a Gardeners’ Chronicle correspondent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1771
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Gardeners’ Chronicle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 44, 3 November 1855, p. 726
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1771,” accessed on 20 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1771.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5