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From Andrew Murray   12 April 1862

Royal Horticultural Society, | South Kensington, W.

12 April 1862

My dear Sir

No! I am not the guilty person.—1

Since I came here, there has been such a multitude of things passing incessantly thro’ my mind, that I should speak less positively were it not for one Circumstance & that is that I never heard of Mr Scudders pamphlet before.— I could not have forgot the Existence of a work upon a subject on which I was interested, particularly if I had borrowed it from you—

No! you must throw your net again into the world & see if you cannot fish out the right man—

I have been promised & I believe it is on the way, a specimen of the representative of our Aepus which lives under shale between low & high water in Australia— I think that should interest us both2

Yours Ever Sincerely | Andw. Murray

1
CD was trying to locate a pamphlet (Scudder 1861) that he thought Murray might have borrowed from him (see letter to Andrew Murray, 10 April [1862]).
2
Aepus is a beetle found on the seashore towards mid-tide level; when covered by the sea at high tide, it probably survives in air pockets within cracks in rocks (G. Evans 1975, p. 106).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3505,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3505