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To Isidoro Dell’Oro   2 May 1873

May 2. 1873

Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me the account of the silk-worms, which I have read with great interest.1

I quite agree with your remarks on the benefit derived from a change of conditions.2 You do not state that you require the Gazette to be returned, & I will therefore keep it unless I hear to the contrary—3

Dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
CD refers to Isidoro Dell’Oro’s ‘Sericulture, and silk in Japan and in Europe’, London Gazette, 17 January 1873, pp. 169–75.
2
Dell’Oro believed that a change of locality, climate, and rearing practices would help save the eggs from the superior-quality yellow silk cocoons found in Italy, which were subject to a disease (pebrine) that caused larval atrophy; to test his views, he took yellow cocoons from Italy to Japan (London Gazette, 17 January 1873, pp. 172–3.
3
There is no copy of the article from the London Gazette (see n. 1, above) in the Darwin Archive–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8893,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8893