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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Octavius Pickard-Cambridge   26 August [1878]

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railroad Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Aug 26

My dear Sir.

Fritz Müller (whose name no doubt you know) resides in S. Brazil— He is, I believe, about the most acute observer in the world, & I have always found him most kind & obliging.— His address is “Blumenau St. Catharina Brazil” (Postage 6d stamps)

If you write, I hope that you will not object to quote from me, that I sent the specimens to you “as knowing far more about Spiders than any other man in Britain”. He might be surprised at my at once sending them away.—1

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin.

Footnotes

No letter from Müller mentioning spiders has been found, but the letter from Fritz Müller, 21 July 1878, is incomplete and the spiders may have been mentioned in a now missing section. In a letter to his brother Hermann dated 28 July 1878, Müller mentioned his observations on spiders that constructed small dwellings from the leaves of a species of Zollernia and sent specimens of the leaves (Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 383). Müller may have sent some of the spiders to CD for identification.

Summary

Sends address of Fritz Müller.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11676
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Gallery of History (dealers) (15 January 1997)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11676,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11676.xml

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