From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]1
25 Wilton Place | SW
My dear Darwin
Would you oblige me by telling me if you know of anything worth looking at for or against or upon your views of the Origin of species which may have appeared abroad2—besides what Asa Gray or A. De Candolle have written—3 I do not mean mere reviews or analysis of your work such as those of the Revue des Deux Mondes4 etc—but any original observations or rational discussion— Have the Germans taken up the subject? I believe Decaisne’s memoir on the variation of species derived chiefly from the observation of cultivated fruits—and Naudin’s on hybrids which contains I believe a great deal of important matter are neither of them yet published5
Yours very sincerely | George Bentham
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bentham, George. 1863. [Anniversary address, 25 May 1863.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 7 (1864): xi–xxix.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Decaisne, Joseph. 1858–75. Le jardin fruitier du Muséum ou iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d’arbres fruitiers cultivés dans cet établissement avec leur description, leur histoire, leur synonymie, etc. 9 vols. in 5. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, fils & Cie.
Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. Nouvelle théorie d’histoire naturelle. L’origine des espèces. Revue des deux mondes 2d ser. 26: 644–71.
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.
Naudin, Charles Victor. 1863. Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Botanique) 4th ser. 19: 180–203.
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4096
- From
- George Bentham
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Wilton Place, 25
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 155
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4096,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4096.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11