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From J. T. Gulick   27 July 1872

Saturday July 27th 1872

To | Charles Darwin Esq | F.R.S.

Dear Sir:

Your account of the Nat. History of the Gallapagos Is., which I read many years ago, was the means of leading me to investigate the distribution of species at the Sandwich Is. where I was then residing1   You have perhaps seen in the number of “Nature” for July 18 my brief statement of some of the facts gathered in that field.2 As I am now in England for a short visit, it will be a great pleasure, to meet you. If you can appoint an hour when when it will be convenient for you to see me I will bring (with me) some of my Sandw Is. land shells illustrating the extremely limited distribution of the species, and the continuous gradation of forms from one species into another.

I shall be able to come any time next week or the week after; but sometime early next week will be the most convenient for me, as I am expecting to leave soon on my way to North China and Mongolia.3

Yours respectfully. | John T. Gulick

Address | c/o Mrs Delacour | Frindsbury Hill | Rochester | Kent

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1
Gulick refers to ‘Descriptions of new species of Achatinella, from the Hawaiian Islands’ (J. T. Gulick 1856) and to chapter 19 in Journal of researches. Gulick’s father was a Presbyterian missionary on the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii; A. Gulick 1932). Achatinella is a genus of Hawaiian tree-living land snails.
2
J. T. Gulick 1872a (‘On the variation of species as related to their geographical distribution, illustrated by the Achatinellinæ’).
3
Gulick departed for his missionary work in China and Mongolia in March 1873, after visiting his parents in Honolulu (A. Gulick 1932, pp. 236–9).

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