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[Williams & Norgate]   16 June [1880]1

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

June 16

Dear Sir

Be so good as to endeavour to get a book or pamphlet (I know not which) by W. Hofmeister, which I see referred to under following title

“Die bis jetz bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer; Braunschweig 1845.”2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

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1
The correspondent is conjectured from the fact that Williams & Norgate usually supplied foreign books to CD. The year is established by CD’s work on earthworms around this date in 1880; see letter to A. C. Ramsay, 17 June 1880, and letter to W. E. Darwin, 18 June 1880.
2
CD’s annotated copy of Werner Hoffmeister’s Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer. Als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie (The presently known species from the family of earthworms. As the basis for a monograph of this family; Hoffmeister 1845) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL, with a separate page of notes by CD. Earthworms was published on 10 October 1881 (Freeman 1977).

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12619F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12619F