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To Arnold Dodel-Port   20 February 1877

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

Feb 20. 77

Dear Sir,

I beg leave to thank you for having so kindly sent me your interesting articles in which you give some account of the noble Testimonial I have lately had the pleasure of receiving from Germany1   I also thank you heartily for the gratifying & eulogistic manner in which you mention my name   The number of distinguished men who have done me the honour to contribute their portraits, is rendered very striking by arranging (them as you have done) under their various universities2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
Two lectures by Dodel-Port on the theory of descent and natural selection were published together in pamphlet form (Dodel-Port 1877). CD’s copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL is uncut, except for the opening pages of the second lecture, which describe the album that he had received containing photographs of German and Austrian scientists. For more on the album, see the letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877.
2
The album was arranged partly by institution, and included portraits of staff and students at educational institutions in Jena, Vienna, Berlin, Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Russia), Hoexter, Mainz, Stuttgart, and Münster.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10856,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10856