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To P. L. Sclater   3 April 1882

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

April 3d 1882

My dear Mr Sclater

I send the enclosed paper to be read at the Zoolog. Soc. & to be printed in the Journal, if so recommended by the referees.1 If rejected, & it is not against your rules, I shd. be much obliged for its return, as I wd try whether the Editor of Nature wd. print it, as I am anxious that its contents shd. be recorded.—

Pray believe me | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Incomplete?2

1
William Thomson Van Dyck, in a letter of 27 February 1882, had sent CD a paper on Syrian street dogs, requesting that he submit it for publication wherever he thought fit. The paper was received by the Zoological Society of London on 4 April 1882, and was published in the Proceedings of the society (Van Dyck 1882).
2
At the bottom of the letter CD wrote ‘over’, but it is unclear what further comments may have been included because the verso of the page is blank and pages 3 and 4 of the notepaper are missing.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13753,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13753