To Axel Blytt 28 March 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
March 28. 76
Dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for your kindness in having sent me your work on “The Immigration of the Norwegian Flora”, which has interested me in the highest degree. Your view, supported as it is by various facts, appears to me the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants, which has appeared since Forbes’ essay on the effects of the Glacial Period1
With much respect | and my best thanks | I remain dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Blytt, Axel. 1876. Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. Christiania: Albert Cammermeyer.
Forbes, Edward. 1846. On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area, especially during the epoch of the Northern Drift. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Economic Geology in London 1: 336–432.
Lie, Thore. 2008. The introduction, interpretation and dissemination of Darwinism in Norway during the period 1860–90. In The reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, edited by Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick. London: Continuum.
Summary
Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10433
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10433,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10433.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24