From W. S. Dallas   16 June 1879

Geological Society, | Burlington House, W.

16 June 1879

My dear Mr. Darwin

I have just got the rest of Dr. Krause’s MS., so he was not so long after his promised time after all.—1 I will get to work at it as soon & as hard as I can, but for a few days I have other things that must be attended to.— He refers to many quotations from your grandfather’s works which must be taken from the originals & the “Zoonomia” I can’t get either at the Linnean or the Royal— They have it at the Royal Institution, but I am not a member, & I don’t know whether they let books go out.—2 However, I suppose it can be managed by some means or other.—

Believe me | Yours very truly | W S Dallas

1
Ernst Krause had sent the second half of his revised manuscript on Erasmus Darwin directly to Dallas (see letter from Ernst Krause, 13 June 1879). Dallas was translating it for the English edition, Erasmus Darwin.
2
Dallas had evidently looked for a copy of Zoonomia (E. Darwin 1794–6) in the libraries of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society of London, and the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12110,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12110