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From F. B. Zincke   8 December 1881

Wherstead Vicarage. Ipswich.

8 Dec 1881

My dear Sir

I have just received a copy of your “Vegetable Mould & Earth Worms” through Mr Murray.1

I offer you my best thanks for this, & for the honour you have done me of placing my name on your pages, which have given mankind so advanced, & so commanding a starting point for the interpretation & intellectual construction of the Cosmos2

I am yrs greatly obliged | & most truly | F Barham Zincke

1
John Murray, CD’s publisher, sent a copy of Earthworms (fifth thousand).
2
CD added information from the letters from Zincke of 1 November 1881 and 8 November 1881 to Earthworms (fifth thousand), pp. 146–7.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13538,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13538