From Frederick Wollaston Hutton 8 March 1860
get you some more if you wish for them; If they are of no use to you please throw them away as I can get more if I want them.
I may mention also, on the chance of its being useful, that, on Nov 9th. 1852, I caught on board the Alfred in Lat 2o〃20‘ South and Long 88o〃40’ East, a species of Land rail.1
Hoping that you will excuse me for taking the liberty of writing to you | I remain | Yours truly | F. W. Hutton | 23rd. R. W. Fusiliers
March 8th. | 1860
CD annotations
1.1 get you … them. 1.2] crossed ink
2.1 I may] ‘(18)’3 brown crayon
Diagram 1: ‘F. W. Hutton | 23d R. W. Fusiliers.’ ink; ‘375 miles from N. Point of Sumatra & rather more distant from Ceylon’ pencil
Diagram 2: ‘F.W. Hutton | 23. R. W. Fusiliers’ ink ; ‘Nearly 600 miles from W. c. of Africa near Sierra Leone’ pencil; ‘There were about 100 of these Dragon-flies’ ink
Hutton was a lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers who had served in the Crimean War and during the Indian Mutiny. In 1852, he was attached to the Indian mercantile marine. Having since returned to England, Hutton was studying geology and mineralogy at the Sandhurst and Woolwich military academies. He may have recently read Origin (see Hutton 1899, pp. 32–3, and Stenhouse 1990, pp. 415–18).
For CD’s notes on the diagrams, see CD’s annotations.
The number of CD’s portfolio of notes on the means of distribution of animals and plants.
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2727,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on