To Henry Tibbats Stainton   20 October [1855]1

Down Bromley Kent

Oct. 20th

Dear Sir

As I do not now collect or work on any order of Insects, it would, I fear, be quite useless inserting my name.2

The slip, however, is quite correct.—

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

1
Dated on the basis that Stainton wrote to CD before publication of the third volume of the Entomologist’s Annual (1856), of which Stainton was the editor (see n. 2, below). The preface to the volume was dated 7 December 1855.
2
Stainton was preparing the third volume of the Entomologist’s Annual (1856), in which he intended to include a list of British entomologists with addresses. CD’s name was not included in the list (Entomologist’s Annual 3 (1856): 14–25).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1767,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1767