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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Robert McLachlan   12 March [1879]1

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

March 12th

My dear Sir

I hope that you will kindly oblige me by looking at all the proper names in the enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature.2 I have no book to look to see whether the names of the Trichoptera are correctly splelt.—3 I hope that you will agree with me that the case is an interesting one.— Please return the proof to me, & forgive me for troubling you.—

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 21 January 1879.
See letter to J. N. Lockyer, 4 and 6 March [1879]; Lockyer had evidently sent CD a proof of Müller’s letter according to CD’s instructions.
McLachlan was an expert on Trichoptera, the order of caddisflies.

Summary

Asks RMcL to correct the proper names in enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature. CD has no book with names of Trichoptera. [See 11930.]

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11927A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Robert McLachlan
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Superior Galleries (dealers) (28–31 January 1990)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11927A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11927A.xml

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