To Eduard Strasburger 29 July 1872
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 29th/72
My dear Sir
I thank you very sincerely for your kind & most courteous letter, & for your present of your work on the Coniferæ &c with its wonderfully elaborate Plates.—1 Nothing in the world is so satisfactory to me as to think that I have guided, in however slight a degree, a naturalist in his work; so that what you say has pleased me much. Your historical sketch (p. 173–223) is a real curiosity, as showing what a number of eminent men have attacked the problem of the nature of the ovules. I shall be curious to see what conclusion you arrive at; but to my ever recurrent & bitter regret I read German with extreme difficulty.2
With my cordial thanks for your kindness & with my respect, I remain | my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Strasburger, Eduard. 1872. Die Coniferen und die Gnetaceen: eine morphologische Studie. 2 vols. Jena: Hermann Dabis.
Summary
Comments on EAS’s work [? Die Coniferen und die Gnetaceen: eine morphologische Studie (1872)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8398
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8398,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8398.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
