From Raphael Meldola 11 December 1879
21 John Street, | Bedford Row, | London W.C.
Dec. 11/79
My dear Mr. Darwin,
Herewith I send you a subscription form for my Eng. ed. of Weismann’s “Studies”.
It is much against my own inclination that I send you this circular but when I last saw you you so strongly insisted upon considering yourself a subscriber that I comply with your wish.1 It would give me much greater pleasure if you would allow me to present you with a copy.
Whether the work is going to be a ‘commercial’ success or not I have not the least idea— I have sent out nearly 300 circulars to the Members of the different Scientific Societies.
Part I (Seasonal Dimorphism) is far more complete than the German ed. as the author has added a great deal & I have appended a résumé of Mr. W. H. Edwards’ important experiments on this subject.2
You will be sorry to hear (if you do not know it already) that Mr. Wallace has not been appointed to the Superintendentship of Epping Forest.3
Yours very truly, | R. Meldola.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Weismann, August. 1875–6. Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie. 2 vols. I. Ueber den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge; II. Ueber die letzten Ursachen der Transmutationen. 1. Die Entstehung der Zeichnung bei den Schmetterlings-Raupen, 2. Ueber den phyletischen Parallelismus bei metamorphischen Arten, 3. Ueber die Umwandlung des mexikanischen Axolotl in ein Amblystoma, 4. Ueber die mechanische Auffassung der Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Weismann, August. 1880–2. Studies in the theory of descent. Translated by Raphael Meldola. 3 parts. Part I (1880): On the seasonal dimorphism of butterflies. Part II (1881): The origin of the markings of caterpillars. On phyletic parallelism in metamorphic species. Part III (1882): The transformation of the Mexican axolotl into amblystoma. On the mechanical conception of nature. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Weismann, August. 1882. Studies in the theory of descent. Translated by Raphael Meldola. 2 vols. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Summary
Sends subscription form for English edition of Weismann’s Studien.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12351
- From
- Raphael Meldola
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, John St, 21
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 139
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12351,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12351.xml