To George Bentham   12 July [1864]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

July 12th.

My dear Bentham

I write merely to thank you very sincerely for the specimens which I have long wished to examine & for your information wh. will be very useful to me.2

Believe me | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

The year is established by the reference to the specimens sent with the letter from George Bentham, 10 July 1864.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4562,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4562