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To Bibliographisches Institut   28 August 1876

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

Aug 28 1876

Gentlemen

I am very much obliged for your kind present of the new edition of Brehm’s Thier leben, The illustrations are admirable; but it wd be superfluous in me to express any opinion on this work, as I have plainly shewn in my Descent of Man how much I have profited by it, & how much I value it.1

With my best thanks I remain Gentlemen | your obliged servant | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The publisher had evidently sent CD the first volume of the second edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm’s Thierleben (Brehm et al. 1876–9). There are nine volumes of the ten-volume work in the Darwin Library–Down (the missing volume is vol. II, part 1).

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