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To August Weismann   13 November 1876

Down, Beckenham, Kent

Nov: 13. 1876

My dear Sir

I thank you cordially for your most kind present of your “Studien &c”.— I look forward with extreme curiosity to learn the meaning of the wonderful and beautiful pictures of caterpillars, and I have no doubt that you will throw much light on this subject as you have on every one which you have investigated.1

With the greatest respect, I remain | Yours faithfully and obliged | Charles Darwin

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There is an annotated copy of the second part of Weismann’s Studien zur Decendenz-Theorie (Studies on the theory of descent; Weismann 1876) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 856–7); the first part of the book was on caterpillars.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10670,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10670