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To the syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden   4 December 1878

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

December 4th 1878

I have read Mr. R. Irwin Lynch’s papers in the Linnean Journal,1 & he has communicated to me other facts; & these together have led me to believe that he possesses acute powers of observation, & further that he is able to describe clearly what he has seen. I may be allowed to add that I have always found Mr. Lynch very obliging in giving me any required assistance.—2

Charles Darwin

1
See Lynch 1877 and 1878.
2
See letter to R. I. Lynch, 4 December [1878] and n. 3. Lynch was applying for the curatorship of the Cambridge Botanic Garden; he was appointed to the position on 14 October 1879 (ODNB).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added by CD

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11770,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11770