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See the same manuscript in HA-Lot1233
The manuscript sold for 14300 EUR on 18 November 2019.
From the auction catalogue:
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, [circa 1875 ?]; 2 pages in-4 format (scattered foxing); in English. Darwin's notes on "insectivorous plants" and regeneration. The first side contains Darwin's notes for his work, Insectivorous Plants (1875), and the reverse, a discussion of an operation apparently concerned with regeneration.
On the verso, one reads Darwin's notes for an operation apparently involving regeneration: "Mrs. Darwin explained that Lyne made a cutting at the first operation on Dec. 5 which makes clear an expression in the diary for Jan. 9th. She then says that Lyne fully agreed with her father that the stump had grown between the operation on Dec. 5th, 1850 and that on May 9th, 1851. The stump which was removed on May 9th included a bone, but bore no nail. She adds "We thought that Prof. Lyne felt a little annoyed about the business, as he had tried to cut as close as he could the first time (i.e. on Dec. 5) when he made first one cutting and then another". After the second operation on May 9th, 1851, she goes on to say: "We could see and feel how much it grew afterwards. It is now (for no attempt has been made to remove it again) a rather large ugly excrescence, certainly containing a bone, but without any nail". |
