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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Anton Dohrn   22 February 1881

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

Feb 22d 1881

My dear Dr Dohrn

Your most kind letter has gratified me much; but your generous sympathy leads you to overestimate what I have been able to do for science, & what little I have done in aid of your noble Institution.1 It is almost a pity that you will not allow me to subscribe for your publications, but I gladly accept your kindness & look at it as an honour.2 All the works which I have seen from your Institution appear to me admirable.

I had not heard about the Zoolog. Jahrsbericht; but am convinced that it would be an excellent plan to give all the materials from all countries in one work.— Our English Record does fully pay its expenses though aided, & for several years some members, including myself, have had to pay an extra subscription.—3

Believe me that no one can wish success in every way to you & your Institution more heartily than I do

I remain, my dear Dr Dohrn | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

P.S | My wife desires me to send to you her kind remembrances.—4

Footnotes

Dohrn wished to send the publications of the Naples Zoological Station to CD as gifts (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881).
Dohrn had just founded the Zoologischer Jahresbericht; the ‘English Record’ was the Zoological Record (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881, n. 5).
Emma Darwin had met Dohrn when he visited CD at Down on 26 September 1870 (see Groeben ed. 1982, pp. 93–4).

Bibliography

Groeben, Christiane, ed. 1982. Charles Darwin 1809–1882, Anton Dohrn 1840–1909: correspondence. Naples: Macchiaroli.

Summary

AD exaggerates what CD has done for science.

On the Zoological Yearbook, CD thinks it would be an excellent plan to give an account of zoological publications from all countries in a single work.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13062
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 706)
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13062,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13062.xml

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