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To A. A. W. Hubrecht   31 August 1881

Down, Beckenham

August 31st. 1881—

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for having sent me a copy of your essay, for these ancient forms are preeminently interesting, & I shall be very glad to read your account.—1

I shall not be at York, much as I shd. have liked it, for I have not strength sufficient. Nor if I were strong enough, I could not now attend, as my elder brother has just died, & is to be buried here tomorrow.2

Wishing you success in all your future interesting researches, I remain | My dear Sir, | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
The essay was ‘Proneomenia Sluiteri gen. et sp. n. with remarks upon the anatomy and histology of the Amphineura’; it was published in English in Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie (Hubrecht 1881). A portion of the essay was presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at York on 5 September 1881 (see Report of the 51st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at York (1881): 673–5). Proneomenia is an archaic group of molluscs.
2
Erasmus Alvey Darwin had died on 26 August 1881 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

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