To Anton Dohrn 2 June [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 2d
My dear Sir
I must write two or three lines to thank you for the extremely kind manner in which you have reviewed my book on Expression in the Academy.2 I have been greatly interested by your article; & your remarks on the necessity of tracing the development of functions strike as novel & very valuable.3
With my renewed thanks & hearty respect | Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin
I was very glad to see the other day so good a report of your work at Naples.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dohrn, Anton. 1873. The Zoological Station at Naples. Nature, 29 May 1873, p. 81.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Nyhart, Lynn K. 1995. Biology takes form. Animal morphology and the German universities, 1800–1900. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Thanks AD for kind review of Expression. AD’s remarks on necessity of tracing development of functions are novel and valuable.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8933
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bibliothèque de Genève (D.O. autogr. 12/50)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8933,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8933.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21