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To Robert McLachlan   12 March [1879]1

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

March 12th

My dear Sir

I hope that you will kindly oblige me by looking at all the proper names in the enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature.2 I have no book to look to see whether the names of the Trichoptera are correctly splelt.—3 I hope that you will agree with me that the case is an interesting one.— Please return the proof to me, & forgive me for troubling you.—

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 21 January 1879.
2
See letter to J. N. Lockyer, 4 and 6 March [1879]; Lockyer had evidently sent CD a proof of Müller’s letter according to CD’s instructions.
3
McLachlan was an expert on Trichoptera, the order of caddisflies.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 have] altered from ‘had’
1.3 are] above del ‘were’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11927A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11927A