Dear D^r. Dohrn

I thank you sincerely for your kind congratulations, & beg you to return my best acknowledgments to all the naturalists at the Station, who have joined you sending their kind message.—¹ I rejoice most truly to hear of the 1500^£ subvention, & trust it may be permanent.² This will remove the manifold anxieties from which you have suffered; whilst from the first you deserved the highest sympathy, & encouragement.

I was thinking of writing to you on a small point. Perhaps you saw in the papers that the Turin Soc^y honoured me to an extraordinary degree by awarding me the Bressa prize.³ Now it occurs to me that if your Station wanted some piece of apparatus of about the value of 100£ I sh^d. very much like to be allowed to pay for it. Will you be so kind as to keep this in mind, & if any want should occur to you, I w^d send you a cheque at any time.—⁴

With all good wishes for your own success & happiness & for the prosperity of the Station, believe me | My Dear D^r Dohrn | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin