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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Anton Dohrn   13 July 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

July 13th 1879

My dear Sir

I suppose that I owe to your great kindness the gift of the three very handsome & valuable Parts of the Mittheilungen.—Zoolog. Stat. zu Neapel.— I thank you much for this gift.1

Whenever I see, as I often do, references to the splendid work done at your Station, I heartily rejoice at your success & at the great service which you have conferred on Science.

Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

CD’s copies of the first three parts of the first volume of Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel have not been found; part 1 was published in 1878 and the remaining parts in 1879. Dohrn was the founder of the Zoological Station, Naples.

Summary

Thanks AD for the handsome Annual Report of the Zoological Station (1878). Rejoices at its success and its great service to science.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12155
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 703)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12155,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12155.xml

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