To ? 19 March [1860–1?]1
Down Bromley Kent
March 19th
Sir
I have the pleasure to inform you that you will find an excellent account, translated from Schiödte on the Styrian Cave insect in the Transactions of the Entomolog. Soc. of London. Vol I Part IV p. 134. & Part V p 145.2
On the American Cave animals you will find two papers by Agassiz & Prof. Silliman Junr in Sillimans North American Journal of Science New Series Vol XI. p. 127 & p. 336.—3
All these papers are well worth reading. The state of my health & largeness of subject will prevent my bringing out even the 1st vol of my larger work on Species for at soonest two years.4
Sir | Your faithful servant | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Agassiz, Louis. 1851a. Observations on the blind fish of the Mammoth Cave. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 11: 127–8.
Origin 2d ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1860.
Origin 3d ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 3d edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1861.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 11: 332–9.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Wallich, Nathaniel, trans. 1851. Specimen faunæ subterraneæ, being a contribution towards the subterranean fauna, by J. C. Schiödte. Translated from the Danish. [Read 6 January 1851.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 1 (1850–1): 134–57.
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13770G
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13770G,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13770G.xml