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From Eduard Schulte1   30 October 1879

Fürstenwalde | Prov. Brandenburg.

30.10.79

Carolo Darwin | Viro Ornatissimo et Doctissimo | S. P. D’.2 | Eduardus Schulte philosophiae doctor.

Hoc unum abs te peto, vir ornatissime: si de papilione illo aliquid scripseris, mittas mihi velim unum exemplar “Nature”, vel mihi appelles numerum folii.3 Hoc officium mihi summo et honori et decori erit.

Cura ut valeas.

1
For a translation of this letter, see Appendix I.
2
SPD: salutem plurimam dicit (Latin), ‘bids the best possible health’, or, ‘greets’.
3
Schulte had written to CD about the iridescent butterfly Hypolimnas bolina (the common eggfly, known to CD as Diadema bolina); see letter from Eduard Schulte, 23 October 1879, and letter to Eduard Schulte, 28 October 1879. No further letters from CD to Schulte have been found, but CD wrote about sexual coloration in butterflies, including Schulte’s case, in his letter to Nature, 16 December 1879.

From Eduard Schulte1   30 October 1879

Fürstenwalde | Prov. Brandenburg.

30.10.79

Eduard Schulte, doctor of philosophy, to the very distinguished and learned Charles Darwin, greetings.

I beg this one favour of you, most honoured Sir: that if you were to write anything about that particular butterfly, you would send me either one copy of “Nature” or tell me the number of the folio.2 I will esteem this favour as a great honour.

Take care that you may keep well.

1
For a transcription of this letter in its original Latin, see Transcript.
2
Schulte had written to CD about the iridescent butterfly Hypolimnas bolina (the common eggfly, known to CD as Diadema bolina); see letter from Eduard Schulte, 23 October 1879, and letter to Eduard Schulte, 28 October 1879. No further letters from CD to Schulte have been found, but CD wrote about sexual coloration in butterflies, including Schulte’s case, in his letter to Nature, 16 December 1879.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12278,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12278