To Linnean Society 23 January [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan. 23d
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your note & beg you to thank the Council for their kindness. I did not know that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one; but had I known it, I shd. have thought myself to have asked the consent of the Council2
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865.
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Summary
Thanks Council for their kindness; even if he had known that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one he would have asked the Council’s consent [before reprinting Climbing plants?].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9828
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Linnean Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9828,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9828.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23