To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 21 February 1871
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Feb 21 1871
Dear Sir
I am greatly obliged for the copy from the Révue & for your interesting remarks. If M. Reclus is trustworthy the case is extremely curious, & I think it wd be worth while to enquire in Paris whether he is to be trusted.1 I have also received your Dutch memoir with the wonderful drawings of elephant’s heads. May this not be a record of an extinct animal like the drawing of the Mastodon said to have been found in France?2 The argument in the voyage of the Novara & elsewhere, led me to the conclusion of the independent civilisation of Peru &c.3
I have already despatched to you the erroneous sheet,4 & I enclose answers to your queries. I wish I knew where the word, Larynx was. I think I follow Häckel in his use of the word Phylum.5 Pray correct in Ch. 6 the word kingdom into sub-kingdom. In vol 1. p 321 I would add, after “classes”, or “sub kingdoms” I am very much obliged for these suggestions.6
I hope soon to send a few more sheets reprinted with slight corrections.
Believe me | dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. I much wish I cd read Dutch; for yr memoir judging from the wood-cuts must be very interesting.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Haeckel, Ernst. 1866. Generelle Morphologie der Organismen. Allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von Charles Darwin reformirte Descendenz-Theorie. 2 vols. Berlin: Georg Reimer.
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.
Reclus, Elisée. 1859–60. La Nouvelle-Grenade: paysages de la nature tropicale. I. Les côtes Néo-Grenadines. II. Sainte-Marthe et la Horqueta. III. Rio-Hacha, les indiens Goajires et la Sierra-Negra. IV. Les Aruaques et la Sierra Nevada. Revue des Deux Mondes 24: 624–61, 25: 609–35, 26: 419–52, 27: 50–83.
Valentine, James W. 2004. On the origin of phyla. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Thanks HHHvZ for a memoir
and answers some queries;
mentions some corrections for his Dutch translation of Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7500
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(2))
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7500,” accessed on 28 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7500.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19