To Hubert Airy   [before 21 January 1873]1

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My dear Mr Airy

If Sir Geo Airy thinks it was right to communicate your paper I shall be happy to do so, & I sincerely hope it may be printed.2

Signed Ch Darwin

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1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hubert Airy, 21 January 1873.
2
CD communicated Airy’s paper on phyllotaxy (Airy 1873) to the Royal Society of London. CD also refers to Airy’s father, George Biddell Airy. See letter from Hubert Airy, 3 January 1873.
3
The copy is written on the back of a letter from Airy to George Gabriel Stokes, the secretary of the Royal Society.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8744,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8744