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Darwin Correspondence Project

To C. V. Riley   30 May 18751

Down, Beckenham, Kent

My Dear Sir

I received this morning your seventh annual Report, & am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent it to me.2 As far as my memory serves me I did not thank you for that last report, but there is not one which you have published in which I have not found much matter which has interested me greatly [. . .]3

Believe me my dear Sir. | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

The date is given in the sale catalogue.
CD refers to the seventh of Riley’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77).
The first report sent by Riley to CD in 1871 was the third of his Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77); thereafter he sent the reports to CD annually. CD’s annotated copies are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 710–12).

Bibliography

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Riley, Charles Valentine. 1869–77. Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial, and other, insects of the State of Missouri. Jefferson City, Mo.: Regan & Edwards, public printer [and others].

Summary

Thanks for the seventh of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77).

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10002F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Charles Valentine Riley
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (August 2005)
Physical description
LS 2pp inc

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10002F,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10002F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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