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To W. R. Browne   23 November 1881

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

Nov. 23d 1881

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your courteous proposal; but I never write in periodicals, as I think that my time is better spent in endeavouring to do new work. Nor indeed have I nearly enough knowledge to attempt discussing the present state of our knowledge on comparative anatomy.1

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
CD had been invited to contribute to a series of articles on ‘how far the theories in each science without any reference to Christianity’ rested on ‘fully proved & verified laws & how far on hypotheses’ (see letter from W. R. Browne, [20–2] November [1881]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.3 discussing] above del ‘deciding’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13516F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13516F