From Andrew Murray 12 April 1862
Royal Horticultural Society, | South Kensington, W.
12 April 1862
My dear Sir
No! I am not the guilty person.—1
Since I came here, there has been such a multitude of things passing incessantly thro’ my mind, that I should speak less positively were it not for one Circumstance & that is that I never heard of Mr Scudders pamphlet before.— I could not have forgot the Existence of a work upon a subject on which I was interested, particularly if I had borrowed it from you—
No! you must throw your net again into the world & see if you cannot fish out the right man—
I have been promised & I believe it is on the way, a specimen of the representative of our Aepus which lives under shale between low & high water in Australia— I think that should interest us both2
Yours Ever Sincerely | Andw. Murray
Footnotes
Bibliography
Evans, Glyn. 1975. The life of beetles. London: George Allen & Unwin.
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1861. On the genus Raphidophora, Serville; with descriptions of four species from the caves of Kentucky, and from the Pacific coast. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 8 (1861–2): 6–14.
Summary
AM did not borrow a Samuel Scudder pamphlet from CD; in fact he was not aware of its existence.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3505
- From
- Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Hortic. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 171.2: 325
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3505,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3505.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10