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To Raphael Meldola   7 February 1879

Down,

Feb. 7th. 1879.

Dear Mr. Meldola,

Pray keep Kosmos as long as you like, and I am glad to hear that you will write abstract.1 I can’t but think Mr. Sampson Low right about subscription, and I beg you to put down my name.2

I have Mr. Edward’s paper3 but have not yet found time to read it—& I have seen Mr. Saunders but many thanks for telling me— I have many letters to write so no more4

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin.

Wallace’s article in 19th. Cent; seemed to me quite excellent.5

Contemporary copy

1
Meldola had borrowed an issue of Kosmos containing F. Müller 1879a from CD; see letter from Raphael Meldola, 6 February 1879 and n. 2.
2
See letter from Raphael Meldola, 6 February 1879 and n. 3. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington had agreed to publish Weismann 1880–2 on the condition that subscription circulars be issued.
4
CD wrote ‘Saunders’ in error; Meldola referred to Scudder 1877 in his letter of 6 February 1879.
5
Alfred Russel Wallace’s ‘Animals and their native countries’ (Wallace 1879) was published in Nineteenth Century; see letter from Raphael Meldola, 6 February 1879 and n. 6.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11862,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11862