Dear Sir

I am extremely much obliged to you for so kindly sending me your paper on the distribution of seeds.² It has interested me much. I hope that you will not be prevented from publishing on subject, if so inclined, by having sent me the MS., for it will be impossible for me to use your facts for some time.³ Some of the points had occurred to me, and I have just alluded to the subject in a new edition of my Origin of Species.⁴ The successive seasons is new to me. The case of the cashew fruit is most novel and curious. By an odd coincidence I have within last few months received several letters from S. Brazil on other and rather different cases of the apparent dispersal of seeds in that country.⁵ I have always imagined that wild pigs and other large mammals might disperse seeds of apples and peaches; but I know not whether apple seeds would be digested.

With very sincere thanks for your great kindness, I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin.