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From Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek   [c. 24 June 1877]1

Basset | Southampton

Dear Sir,

My father directs me to tell you that he has written to Sir Wyville Thompson in favour of yr request, & he hopes that you may be successful2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Francis Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson, 25 June 1877.
2
CD’s letter to Charles Wyville Thomson has not been found. Hoek had written to Thomson requesting duplicates of the Pycnogonida (sea-spider) specimens collected on the Challenger expedition (see letter from P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson, 25 June 1877). CD had received copies of Hoek’s recent work on sessile cirripedes and Balanus (Hoek 1875 and 1876; see Correspondence vol. 23, letter to P. P. C. Hoek, 11 March 1875, and Correspondence vol. 24, letter to P. P. C. Hoek, [after May 1876]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11014F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11014F