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Darwin Correspondence Project

To P. L. Sclater   3 April 1882

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

April 3d 1882

My dear Mr Sclater

I send the enclosed paper to be read at the Zoolog. Soc. & to be printed in the Journal, if so recommended by the referees.1 If rejected, & it is not against your rules, I shd. be much obliged for its return, as I wd try whether the Editor of Nature wd. print it, as I am anxious that its contents shd. be recorded.—

Pray believe me | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

William Thomson Van Dyck, in a letter of 27 February 1882, had sent CD a paper on Syrian street dogs, requesting that he submit it for publication wherever he thought fit. The paper was received by the Zoological Society of London on 4 April 1882, and was published in the Proceedings of the society (Van Dyck 1882).

Bibliography

Van Dyck, William Thomas. 1882. On the modification of a race of Syrian street-dogs by means of sexual selection. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin, F.R.S, F.Z.S. [Read 18 April 1882.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1882): 367–9.

Summary

Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13753
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Philip Lutley Sclater
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.618)
Physical description
ALS 1p inc?

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13753,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13753.xml

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