To P. L. Sclater 3 April 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
April 3d 1882
My dear Mr Sclater
I send the enclosed paper to be read at the Zoolog. Soc. & to be printed in the Journal, if so recommended by the referees.1 If rejected, & it is not against your rules, I shd. be much obliged for its return, as I wd try whether the Editor of Nature wd. print it, as I am anxious that its contents shd. be recorded.—
Pray believe me | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Van Dyck, William Thomas. 1882. On the modification of a race of Syrian street-dogs by means of sexual selection. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin, F.R.S, F.Z.S. [Read 18 April 1882.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1882): 367–9.
Summary
Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13753
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Philip Lutley Sclater
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.618)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p inc?
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13753,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13753.xml