To Lawson Tait   19 July 1880

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

July 19th 1880

My dear Sir

I have much pleasure in enclosing 25£ for your Scientific Fund in Birmingham—1

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

On 19 July 1880, CD recorded a payment of £25 to ‘Birm Sc Fund’ under ‘Gifts [and] Annual Subscriptions’ in his Classed account books (Down House MS). For more on the fund, see the letter to Lawson Tait, 16 July [1880] and n. 3.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12662,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12662