To W. T. Van Dyck 3 April 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
April 3d. 1882.—
Dear Sir
After much deliberation I have thought it best to send your very interesting paper to the Zoological Soc. in hopes that it will be published in the Journal.—1 This Journal goes to every scientific institution in the world, & the contents are abstracted in all year-books on zoology.— Therefore I have preferred it to “Nature”, though the latter has a wider circulation, but is ephemeral.— I have prefaced your essay by a few general remarks to which I hope that you will not object.—2
Of course I do not know that the Z. Soc., which is much addicted to more systematic work, will publish your essay. If it does I will send you copies of your essay, but these will not be ready for some months.— If not published by the Socy. I will endeavour to get Nature to publish it, I am very anxious that it shd be published & preserved.3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Baldwin, Melinda. 2015. Making Nature: the history of a scientific journal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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
Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13757
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Thomson Van Dyck
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.11: 15 (EH 88206067)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp & cover
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13757,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13757.xml