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To Albert Günther   23 November 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov 23— 1872

My dear Dr Günther

Many thanks for the Pop. Sc. Review; but I am a subscriber & read yr article with the greatest interest some time ago.1 Therefore I return it, as you might like to give it to some one else, erasing my name— I have to thank you for a most kind letter received a little time ago, & which pleased me much2   But I did not answer it as I hope to be in London before very long & shall then see you—3

Believe me | yours very sincerely | Ch Darwin

LS

1
Günther published an article on Ceratodus, a newly discovered fish from Queensland, Australia, in Popular Science Review (Günther 1872). For his other publications on the subject, see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Albert Günther, 1 October 1871 and n. 5. The Queensland Ceratodus, a lungfish, is now known as Neoceratodus forsteri, the name Ceratodus being reserved for its extinct relatives.
3
CD was in London from 17 to 22 or 23 December 1872 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II); Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); he had planned to go earlier (letter to R. F. Cooke, 7 December [1872]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8645,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8645