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To H. N. Moseley   7 February 1877

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

Feb 7. 1877

My dear Mr Moseley

I shall like very much to see the photographs as you so kindly propose. Please ask Hooker to have the box addressed Orpington Station S.E.R as that is much the safest route.1 I was very glad to read your paper on the N. Zealand Peripatus & likewise yr discussion on the colours of deep sea animals.2 When I read Mr Bullar’s paper on the self-fertilising hermaphrodites I suspected some error but could not conceive what it was.3

With many thanks | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

LS

1
No letter from Moseley about the photographs has been found and the photographs have not been identified, but see also Correspondence vol. 24, letter from H. N. Moseley, 3 November 1876 and n. 5. Joseph Dalton Hooker.
2
Moseley published a paper on Peripatus novae-zealandiae (a synonym of Peripatoides novaezealandiae, a velvet worm) in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Moseley 1877a); see also Correspondence vol. 24, letter from H. N. Moseley, [after 17 November 1876]. There is a copy of Moseley 1877a in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Moseley published on the colours of deep-sea animals in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (Moseley 1877b).
3
John Follet Bullar’s article was ‘The generative organs of the parasitic isopoda’ (Bullar 1876). Moseley discussed Bullar’s conclusion that the isopods were self-impregnating in Moseley 1877a, pp. 89–90; he suggested that Bullar had mis-identified spermatophores as testes.

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