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To Williams & Norgate   16 November 1880

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

Nov. 16th 1880

Dear Sir

Though the great Neapolitan work is of no use to me, I feel bound to become a subscriber, as the Zoolog. Station at Naples has done such admirable service to science.—1 Will you therefore be so kind as to forward the enclosed & pay the charges, & you can send in your account whenever you think fit.—2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The first two volumes of the monograph series Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel appeared in 1880 (Chun 1880 and Emery 1880; see letter from Anton Dohrn, 11 February 1880 and n. 7); CD’s copies are in the Darwin Library–CUL. On CD’s previous support for the Zoological Station at Naples, see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Anton Dohrn, 7 March 1874.
2
Dohrn later asked CD to accept the series as a gift (Correspondence vol. 29, letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 at Naples] above del ‘there’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12823A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12823A