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From E. A. Darwin   [after 8 June 1858]1

I send this model as I have made it, but it is not worth much. If you turn up all the triangles perpendicular to what they are fixed to, & the semicircles, in short every thing perpendicular to every thing, it makes quarter of a dodec.

This is as bad as a chinese puzzle & not of any consequence2

1
Dated by the relationship to the letter from E. A. Darwin, [8 June 1858].
2
The final sentence was written in pencil on the verso of the letter. The letter was originally sent folded around a series of paper cut-out figures. The figures are in DAR 162: 48/4.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2283A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2283A