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To Williams & Norgate   30 August [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Aug. 30

Dear Sir

Will you be so good as to procure for me, as cheaply as you can, the two volumes on Cirripedia, published for me by the Ray. Soc.— I believe that they are sold by Mess Hardwick & Co.— I forget price, but I think it was 30s.—2

These vols. are for Dr. Anton Dohrn for the Zoological Station at Naples; & I have directed Mr. Murray to send copies of all my publications to you for the same purpose.3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter, the letter from Anton Dohrn, 21 August 1872, and the letter to Anton Dohrn, 24 August [1872] (Correspondence vol. 20).
2
Living Cirripedia (1851) and Living Cirripedia (1854). Robert Hardwicke was publisher to the Ray Society (Freeman 1977).
3
See Correspondence vol. 20, letter to John Murray, 30 August [1872]. Dohrn had asked British scientific societies to donate their publications for the library of the Naples Zoological Station when he attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Brighton in August (see ibid., letter from Anton Dohrn, 21 August 1872 and nn. 1 and 4).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

2.1 These] after del ‘I had directed’
2.1 Zoological Station] above del ‘Vivarium’

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