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To Theodor Eimer   6 January [1882]1

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

Jan. 6th 1881.

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me your work on the variation of the wall-lizard and for another paper.—2

Please accept my thanks and believe me | dear Sir | yours very faithfully | signed: Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The transcription of this letter is from a handwritten copy made in 1953. A note on the copy says that the letter was addressed to ‘Prof. Dr. Th. Eimer’ and postmarked 1882. CD misdated the letter 1881.
2
The paper on the wall lizard (Lacerta muralis, a synonym of Podarcis muralis) is Eimer 1881a. The other paper is probably Eimer 1881b; a copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Eimer had sent a previous work on lizards in 1874 (Eimer 1873–4; see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Theodor Eimer, 12 December 1874).

Bibliography

Eimer, Theodor. 1873–4. Zoologische Studien auf Capri. I Über Beroë ovatus. II Lacerta muralis coerulea. Ein Beitrag zur Darwin’schen Lehre. 2 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.

Eimer, Theodor. 1881a. Untersuchungen über das Variiren der Mauereidechse, ein Beitrag zur Theorie von der Entwicklung aus constitutionellen Ursachen, sowie zum Darwinismus. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47: 239–517.

Eimer, Theodor. 1881b. Eine Dipteren- und Libellenwanderung beobachtet im September 1880. Biologisches Centralblatt 1 (1881–2): 549–58.

Summary

Is obliged for TE’s paper on the wall lizard and another paper.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13600F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Source of text
CUL: Library Correspondence 1953: ref. 1273

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13600F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13600F.xml

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