From George Brettingham Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin   22 July 1863

The reference is to a woodcut of a steel trap for catching vermin which appeared in the pamphlet that Emma and CD had printed privately in August 1863 for distribution (An appeal, p. 2; see Correspondence vol.11, Appendix IX). There is an entry in CD’s Account book–cash account (Down House MS), dated 24 July 1863, recording payment to Sowerby of £1 11s. 2d. George Brettingham Sowerby Jr. ran a business at 45 Great Russell Street, London, selling natural history specimens (Post Office London directory 1863). He was also a leading natural history artist, and had drawn the figures of fossil shells for South America, and the illustrations for Living Cirripedia (1851 and 1854), Fossil Cirripedia (1854), and Orchids (see Correspondence vols. 3, 4, 5, and 9).