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To T. L. Brunton   28 April 1879

Down | Beckenham Kent.

Ap. 28 1879

My dear Sir

I thank you cordially for your note & the journal & return it by this same post.1 I have copied out the passage marked, & have looked to the Zoonomia: It certainly seems a good instance of Dr. D’s acute power of observation.2 Should you have anything further to communicate I shall be truly obliged.

My Dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. I have been out of luck in not finding you at home when I called there two times when last in London—3 But I called only for the pleasure of 10 minutes conversation—

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2
Brunton had pointed out that Erasmus Darwin appeared to have anticipated a modern discovery in a passage in his medical work Zoonomia (see letter from T. L. Brunton, 26 April [1879] and n. 4). CD referred to this and Brunton’s discussion of the modern discovery in Erasmus Darwin, p. 109.
3
CD was in London from 27 February to 5 March 1879 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12015,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12015