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Darwin Correspondence Project

To J. J. Moulinié   21 March [1868]1

Down, Bromley Kent [4 Chester Place]

March 21

My dear Sir

Victor Carus has detected a sad error in a French name, viz I have spelt. (Vol. 2 p. 282, 283 & foot-note p. 284) the name Lacaze-Duthiers, as if it was Lucaze— You will probably have detected my error.—2

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 17 March 1868.

Summary

Corrects error in spelling of name [in Variation].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-6034
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Sent from
London, Chester Place, 4 Down letterhead
Source of text
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 7)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6034,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6034.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16

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