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To C. V. Naudin   8 December [1864]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Dec 8

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your kind letter & Congratulations.2 I am very glad to possess your photograph3   I enclose one of myself made of me by one of my sons, for I have no other.4

I am particularly glad that you have given me the reference to the comptes Rendus”, for the subject referred to interests me in an especial manner, & I have obtained very few authentic facts.5

I am glad to hear that you are still working on the Cucurbitacæ;6 I have lately quoted extensively from your most interesting papers on this order, in a work which I am preparing on variation.7 I hope soon to send you a paper on Lythrum which I trust may interest you;8

with Sincere thanks & respect | I remain dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from C. V. Naudin, 6 December 1864.
4
CD probably refers to the photograph taken by his son William Erasmus Darwin in April or May 1864 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8, and frontispiece to this volume).
7
Naudin is cited frequently on Cucurbitaceae in Variation.
8
CD refers to ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’. The paper was published on 12 December 1864 (General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society). Naudin’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for the paper (see Correspondence vol.12, Appendix III).

Bibliography

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

General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society: General index to the first twenty volumes of the Journal (Botany), and the botanical portion of the Proceedings, November 1838 to June 1886, of the Linnean Society. London: Linnean Society of London. 1888.

Naudin, Charles Victor. 1864. De l’hybridité considérée comme cause de variabilité dans les végétaux. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 59: 837–45.

‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]

Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.

Summary

Thanks CVN for reference to the Comptes Rendus [Académie Française].

Mentions CVN’s work on Cucurbitaceae and notes that he (CD) has quoted extensively from it in Variation.

Hopes to send paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31] soon.

Mentions exchange of photographs.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4707
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Charles Victor Naudin
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.303)
Physical description
LS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4707,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4707.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12

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