From August Schleicher 9 February 1865
Professor Dr. A. Schleicher | Jena
Excuse, Sir, my very bad English, but I prefer to show my rudeness in writing Your language insteed of causing to You any trouble with reading German.
With this letter I send to You a little pamphlet; perhaps You will think it not unworthy to be epitomised or translated by a Reviewer.1
This summer a Congress of botanists, horticulturists and seedsmen and a great exhibition shall take place at Erfurt.2 In the program just published I read, that the first object of transactions is ‘the Theory of Darwin’.3
Pray, accept my photography;4 dare I hope to be favoured with Yours? With the best wishes for Your health and with sincere respect
Aug. Schleicher.
Jena, 9/2 65.
Footnotes
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Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Erfurt-Congress: Zweiter Congress deutscher Gärtner, Botaniker und Gartenfreunde und allgemeine deutsche Ausstellung von Gemüsen und landwirthschaftlichen Produkten, Obst, Pflanzen, Blumen, Gartengeräthschaften etc. in Erfurt im September 1865. Erfurt: A. Stenger. [1865].
Nachtrag: Nachtrag zum Programm für den zweiten Congress deutscher Gärtner, Botaniker und Gartenfreunde und für die allgemeine deutsche Ausstellung von Gemüsen und landwirthschaftlichen Produkten, Obst, Pflanzen, Blumen, Gartengeräthschaften u. s. w. in Erfurt im September 1865. Erfurt,: A. Stenger. [1865.]
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Richards, Robert J. 2001. The linguistic creation of man: Charles Darwin, August Schleicher, Ernst Haeckel, and the missing link in nineteenth-century theory. In Experimenting in tongues: studies in science and language, edited by Matthias Doerres. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Schleicher, August. 1863. Die Darwinsche Theorie und die Sprachwissenschaft. Offenes Sendschreiben an Herrn Dr Ernst Häckel. Weimar, Germany: Hermann Böhlau.
Schleicher, August. 1864. Die Darwin’sche Theorie und die Thier- und Pflanzenzucht. Stöckhardt’s Zeitschrift für deutsche Landwirthe 15: 1–11.
Schleicher, August. 1869. Darwinism tested by the science of language. Translated from the German, with preface and additional notes, by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. London: John Camdem Hotten.
Summary
Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];
announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4770
- From
- August Schleicher
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Jena
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 53
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4770,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4770.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13