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To Henry Tibbats Stainton   20 October [1855]1

Down Bromley Kent

Oct. 20th

Dear Sir

As I do not now collect or work on any order of Insects, it would, I fear, be quite useless inserting my name.2

The slip, however, is quite correct.—

With much respect, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Dated on the basis that Stainton wrote to CD before publication of the third volume of the Entomologist’s Annual (1856), of which Stainton was the editor (see n. 2, below). The preface to the volume was dated 7 December 1855.
Stainton was preparing the third volume of the Entomologist’s Annual (1856), in which he intended to include a list of British entomologists with addresses. CD’s name was not included in the list (Entomologist’s Annual 3 (1856): 14–25).

Summary

Would be useless to insert CD’s name [on masthead of Entomologists’ Annual] since he does not work on insects.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1767
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 15)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1767,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1767.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5

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