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To Anton Dohrn   22 February 1881

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

Feb 22d 1881

My dear Dr Dohrn

Your most kind letter has gratified me much; but your generous sympathy leads you to overestimate what I have been able to do for science, & what little I have done in aid of your noble Institution.1 It is almost a pity that you will not allow me to subscribe for your publications, but I gladly accept your kindness & look at it as an honour.2 All the works which I have seen from your Institution appear to me admirable.

I had not heard about the Zoolog. Jahrsbericht; but am convinced that it would be an excellent plan to give all the materials from all countries in one work.— Our English Record does fully pay its expenses though aided, & for several years some members, including myself, have had to pay an extra subscription.—3

Believe me that no one can wish success in every way to you & your Institution more heartily than I do

I remain, my dear Dr Dohrn | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

P.S | My wife desires me to send to you her kind remembrances.—4

2
Dohrn wished to send the publications of the Naples Zoological Station to CD as gifts (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881).
3
Dohrn had just founded the Zoologischer Jahresbericht; the ‘English Record’ was the Zoological Record (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 18 February 1881, n. 5).
4
Emma Darwin had met Dohrn when he visited CD at Down on 26 September 1870 (see Groeben ed. 1982, pp. 93–4).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway Station … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
2.3 pay] after del ‘expe’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13062,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13062