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From Anton Dohrn   3 March 1880

Stazione Zoologica | di | Napoli

March 3rd. 1880.

Dear Mr. Darwin!

I got yesterday your kind letter and the enclosed cheque of £.100. I thank you once more most sincerely for your generous present and for the permission to use it in the way I ventured to propose.1

It was urged at the last Meeting of the Brit. Association, that such a fund was necessary, but no money was granted for it. I hope this time it may have a better success, and I have confidentially told about your gift to the Secretary of the Committee for the Table of the Brit. Ass, so that he may report upon it at the next meeting.2

With my kindest regards | I remain | Yours respectfully | and most sincerely | Anton Dohrn

2
In his letter of 21 February 1880, Dohrn had suggested that he could use CD’s gift to start a fund for English naturalists visiting the Zoological Station at Naples. The British Association for the Advancement of Science rented a laboratory table at the station; the secretary of the committee for the table was Albert George Dew-Smith. For the report requesting additional funds for travel, see the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1879): 165–71. For the subsequent report detailing Dohrn’s new fund for the travelling expenses of English naturalists and requesting additional contributions from the British Association, see ibid. (1880): 161–9.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12508,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12508