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To Arthur Nicols   [8–10 March 1871]1

[Down.]

The facts which you relate about the phascolarctos are very surprising, and I will carefully preserve your note for use on some future occasion.2

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1
The date range is established by the relationship between this letter and the letters from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 and 11 March 1871 (Correspondence vol. 19).
2
See Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871. Nicols had written about pet koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) that acquired a taste for tobacco and rum.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7555F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7555F