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To Anton Dohrn   13 July 1879

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

July 13th 1879

My dear Sir

I suppose that I owe to your great kindness the gift of the three very handsome & valuable Parts of the Mittheilungen.—Zoolog. Stat. zu Neapel.— I thank you much for this gift.1

Whenever I see, as I often do, references to the splendid work done at your Station, I heartily rejoice at your success & at the great service which you have conferred on Science.

Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

1
CD’s copies of the first three parts of the first volume of Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel have not been found; part 1 was published in 1878 and the remaining parts in 1879. Dohrn was the founder of the Zoological Station, Naples.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

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