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From William Farr   17 February 1868

General Register Office | Somerset House

1868 Feb 17

Ch Darwin Esq FRS

My dear Sir

I shall be very glad indeed if I can furnish you with any information of use.1

I send by post copies of the Registrar General’s Reports—and two other books which you may like to see—if they are not in your Library.2 If you will kindly return the books—by post—postage-unpaid—under cover to the Registrar General—they will reach us in safety.

I will make inquiries about the animals—&c3

I write in haste as you may require the books.

I am my dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | W. Farr

1
No letter from CD requesting information from Farr has been found.
2
These publications have not been identified.
3
CD probably requested information on the proportion of the sexes in domestic animals (see letter from William Farr, 27 February 1868).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5888,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5888