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To A. G. Dew-Smith   19 January [1875]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 19th

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged for your interesting letter with an account of the Zoological Station at Naples. Will you tell Dr Foster that I quite agree with him that it would be best to publish Dr Dohrn’s letter just as it stands, together with his circular   I think also it would be best to publish a list of the donors with the amounts subscribed; for I remember on two or three occasions having subscribed for some object & feeling disappointed at never receiving any news of the success of the movement2

In the present case I think that all the subscribers will feel highly satisfied at the result

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. G. Dew-Smith, 17 January 1875.
2
With his letter of 17 January 1875, Dew-Smith had sent a draft circular about the successful appeal for funds for Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. For the final version of the circular, see the letter from Michael Foster, 30 January 1875; it did include a list of subscribers and amounts subscribed.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9825,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9825