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Summary
Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; “the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed”. Is impressed by the work of the English in India.
Transcription
Down, Farnborough, Kent.
Sept. 1
Dear Royle
I return you with very many thanks your valuable work: I am sure I have not lost any slip or disarranged the loose numbers. I have been interested by looking through the vols., though I have not found quite so much as I had thought possible about the varieties of the Indian domestic animals and plants,f1 and the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed. I have, however, been astonished and delighted at the evidence of the energetic attempts to do good by such numbers of people and most of them evidently not personally interested in the result. Long may our rule flourish in India. I declare all the labour shown in these Transactions is enough by itself to make one proud of ones countrymen. Once again let me thank you for lending me so valuable a work, and one so evidently useful and well used by you.
Pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
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- See letter to J. F. Royle, 14 August [1847], n. 1.