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DARWIN (Charles, 1809-1882). Naturalist and author.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO PROFESSOR H. G. BROMM.

4 pp., 11th March. £6 10s

[To H. G. Bronn 11 March [1862] The letter in the Correspondence is from a copy.]

"…I am surprised and pleased to hear that a new edition of the Origin will be wanted. The last edition in England contains a considerable number of small corrections and a few of importance; and I should like to make a few more corrections on clean sheets of the last English Edition, which I will send you…

"In about a month's time I shall publish a little book on the Fertilisation of Orchids and on their Homologies, of which I will send you a copy. …  But I doubt whether the Book would be worth translating though it contains, I believe, some new & curious facts." Etc. etc.

 

762

DARWIN (Charles).

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO "MY DEAR SIR WILLIAM" (HOOKER).

3 pp., 8vo. Down, Farnborough, February 17th. N.Y. £3 3s

[17 February [1851]]

"You will no doubt like to see the enclosed letter from your son. …. Everyone will, I suppose, be quite astonished to hear of the Oaks and Birches of the Tropics; it strikes one as almost disheartening, almost as bad as if some geologist were to find Tertiary shells in a Silurian formation. Falconer's conduct is enough to make one swear at him." Etc.

 

763

DARWIN (CHARLES).

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. CUPPLES.

[To George Cupples 20 November [1869] see F3558]

2pp., 8vo. Beckenham, November 20th, 1869. With envelope. £2 10s

"…The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deerhound are owning to you really almost sufficient, and much better data than I have got in many other cases.

"I have not Dr. Stirlings paper at hand, for a have lent it, but I think he wd. be compelled to admit some change in the famous protoplasm in the domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body and qualities of the mind."

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DARWIN (CHARLES).

LETTER SIGNED.

3 pp., 8vo. Kent, November 15th. Circa 1865. 17s 6d

An interesting letter concerning a life of his grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood, which Eliza Meteyard was preparing.

[To Hurst & Blackett 15 November [1863]]

An interesting letter concerning a life of his grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood, which Eliza Meteyard was preparing.

"...I have in my possession a good many letters to him from Dr. Erasmus Darwin (also my grandfather) and if they would be likely to give any information I shall be glad to send them to Miss Meteyard or to you.

"They are chiefly on semi-scientific subjects, and probably would only be useful as shewing what subjects were occupying Mr. Wedgewood's mind and the dates of them." Etc.