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To T. M. Reade   12 October [1877]1

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

Oct. 12

My dear Sir

I am very glad to hear of your work.—2 As at present every minute of my time is occupied with observations on vegetable physiology I will not accept the very kind offer of your M.S, but whenever it is published I shall read it with great interest3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the references to Reade’s paper in this letter and in the letter to G. H. Darwin, 24 November [1877].
2
Reade was writing a paper titled ‘The age of the world as viewed by the geologist and the mathematician’; it was published in February 1878 (see letter to G. H. Darwin, 24 November [1877] and n. 5).
3
CD recorded that he worked on movement of plants and heliotropism during the second half of 1877 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

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