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Darwin Correspondence Project

To F. J. Cohn   [30 June 1875]1

My dear Sir

As you expressed a wish to have an early copy of my book on Insectivorous Plants, I have told my publisher to send you one of the first copies, & you will soon receive it.2 I hope that you will think that I have referred to your admirable papers with the respect which they deserve—3

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

The date ‘Jun 30th’ was added in a contemporary hand under the printed address. The year is established by the reference to Insectivorous plants (see n. 2, below).
See letter from F. J. Cohn, 9 January 1875 and n. 12. Cohn had been asked to write an essay on Insectivorous plants for the journal Deutsche Rundschau. Insectivorous plants was published on 2 July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
In Insectivorous plants, p. 322, CD wrote that he could add nothing to Cohn’s excellent description of Aldrovanda (the waterwheel plant), and referred frequently to observations made by Cohn in his paper on the bladders of Aldrovanda and Utricularia (bladderwort; Cohn 1875a).

Bibliography

Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.

Summary

CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10037A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 185: 98
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10037A,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10037A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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