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To Federico Philippi   3 April 1882

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

April 3d 1882

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for having kindly sent me your Catalogue of the Chilian plants, which must have cost you much labour.1 How much we know of the natural history of Chili to what was known many years ago when I visited that magnificent country!2 And how much of this increased knowledge the world owes to you.—

With much respect, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
CD’s copy of Philippi’s Catalogus plantarum vascularium Chilensium adhuc descriptarum (Philippi 1881) is in the Darwin Library–CUL.
2
In 1834 and 1835, CD had spent a considerable amount of time in Chile while on the Beagle voyage. See Journal of researches, pp. 308–442.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

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