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To Georg von Seidlitz   17 July 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

July 17. 75

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your kind present, & am very glad to see a second & improved edition of your excellent lectures.1

I beg leave to remain dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

There is a copy of the second edition of Seidlitz’s Die Darwin’sche Theorie (Seidlitz 1875) in the Darwin Library–Down; an annotated copy of the first edition (Seidlitz 1871) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 753). See also Correspondence vol. 20, letter from Georg von Seidlitz, 22 April 1872.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

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.

Seidlitz, Georg Carl Maria von. 1875. Die Darwin’sche Theorie: elf Vorlesungen über die Entstehung der Thiere und Pflanzen durch Naturzüchtung. 2d edition. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.

Summary

Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10077F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10077F,” accessed on 27 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10077F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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