From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman   12 December 1877

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

Dec 12th. 1877

Dear Sir,

My father begs me to express to you his thanks for your kindness in sending your pamphlet on Selliera.1 He has been so much interested by your letter that he has ventured to forward it for publication to Nature.2 He hopes that in the impossibility of communicating with you on the subject, you will excuse the liberty he takes in doing so.3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Francis Darwin

1
See letter from T. F. Cheeseman, 23 October 1877. Cheeseman sent CD his paper ‘On the fertilization of Selliera’ (Cheeseman 1876); CD’s copy has not been found. Cheeseman’s observations were made on S. radicans (remuremu or swampweed).
2
The letter from T. F. Cheeseman, 23 October 1877, was published in Nature, 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4.
3
Cheeseman lived in New Zealand.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11277,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11277