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To Anton Kerner von Marilaun   24 May [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 24th

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged for the kind present of your “Die Schutzmittel &c &c” & for several pamphlets; the latter received this day.—2 Everything which you write interests me, & I am particularly glad to receive the first work, as it relates to a subject which I am now investigating.3 I have not yet begun to read it, but shall do so in a week or two’ time.

With sincere thanks & respect, I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to Kerner 1873a (see n. 2, below); see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873].
2
There is a copy of Kerner von Marilaun’s paper ‘Die Schutzmittel des Pollens gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Dislocation und gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Befeuchtung’ (Preventive measures of pollen against damage by premature dislocation and moistening; Kerner 1873a) in DAR 136: 14; the other papers are probably those in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (Kerner 1871a, 1871b, 1871c, 1873b).
3
CD cited Kerner 1873a in Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 376, 412, 376, 390.

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