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To the Linnean Society   [after 12] September 18721

I hereby authorize Mr. Jas. West, Messenger to the Linnean Society, to receive on my behalf such parts of the Transactions of that Society as may now be due to me.2

Charles Darwin

Septr. 1872

With my Thanks—

LS(A)

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to the Linnean Society, 12 September 1872.
2
In 1872, James West succeeded his deceased uncle Thomas West as the Linnean Society’s porter, messenger, collector, and housekeeper (Gage and Stearn 1988, p. 67). CD’s copies of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London are in the Darwin Archive–CUL.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

4.1 With my Thanks—] in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8501,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8501