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To Gustaf Retzius   28 August 1879

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

Aug. 28th 1879

Dear Sir

I thank you most sincerely for the present of your magnificent work, ‘Finska Kranien’, which it is an honour to any country to have published, & it is a great honour to me to have received.—1

I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Retzius had sent his Finska kranier; jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi (Finnish skulls; with some natural and literary studies, in other areas of Finnish anthropology; Retzius 1878); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
0.2 1879] ‘9’ over ‘8’
1.2 &] over ‘—’

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