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To W. D. Crick   26 March 1882

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

March 26th 1882

Dear Sir

I write one line to thank you for your last note & your several previous ones, which have interested me much.—1 I will now get my letter to Nature copied as quickly as I can, & despatch it; but I am at present not very well.—2 I think that I had better use the old name of Cyclas.3

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
See letter from W. D. Crick, 24 March 1882. Crick first wrote to CD about his discovery of a small clam adhering to the leg of a water beetle in his letter of 18 February 1882; he wrote four more letters on the subject and sent the specimens to CD (see Crick’s letters of 24 February 1882, 3 March 1882, and 9 March 1882). CD mentioned being very unwell for several days in his letter to W. D. Crick, 10 March [1882].
2
CD’s article, ‘Dispersal of freshwater bivalves’, was published in Nature, 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.
3
Crick had referred to his specimen as Sphaerium corneum; Cyclas cornea, a synonym, is the name CD used in his article. For more on the names, see letter from W. D. Crick, 24 March 1882 and n. 1.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13741,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13741