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To Linnean Society   1 January [1875]1

Jan 1st

Gentlemen,

I hope that you will permit me to republish in a corrected form my paper on Climbing Plants which appears in the 9th vol (1865) of your Journal.2 I wish it the paper appear as a second Part to a new work, which I shall soon send to press.—3 If you grant my request, I further hope that you will be so good as to allow me to use the 13 woodblocks illustrating the paper; & in this case I request that they may be sent to Mr Murray of Albermarle St., marked as for my intended, volume,

Gentlemen | Yours obliged & obed servt | C. D.

To the Pres. & Council of | Linn— Soc.

ADraftS

1
The year is established by the reference to Climbing plants (see n. 2, below).
2
‘Climbing plants’, CD’s paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany), was also published by Longman in 1865 (Climbing plants). Climbing plants 2d ed. was published in November 1875 (letter from R. F. Cooke, 25 October 1875).
3
CD originally planned to publish the material on climbing plants as part of his book Insectivorous plants, but later decided to publish Climbing plants 2d ed. as a separate volume (see letter from John Murray, 9 April [1875]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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1.2 I wish … as 1.3] interl after del ‘so as to’; ‘the paper’ above del illeg
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1.3 If] above del ‘In case’
1.4 request] above del ‘permiss’
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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10004,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10004