From Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg 16 August 1875
Paris,
16. August 1875,
Dear and honoured Sir,
A few days ago I took the liberty, to send you the two numbers of the “fremdenblatt”—the Pall mall gazette of Vienna—which contains my review on your last renowned work: “Insectivorous Plants”.1
A glance through them will have shown to you, how much I think of the work, and how much I admire your diligence, your patience, your endurance and, above all, your genius.
The little articles I wrote, may they be a little evidence of the acknowledgment of the great services, which you rendered to the natural history and the science generally!
The critic, which I wrote for the German “Illustrated London News”—called “Der Pionier” will appear in about a month, and I shall not fail, to send you also copies of this paper.2
The book, you lend me, I have sent to the Savile Club, after your advice.3
I should be very happy, if you would kindly acknowledge the receipt of the “fremdenblatt”—for otherwise I would send you another copy.
With the assurance of my high regard, and my admiration | I am, Dear Sir, | yours | most faithfully | Ernest von Hesse Wartegg | Author of the Werkzeugmasch: der Neuzeit,4 | Unterseeische Tunnelbauten etc, etc,—5
at present: | 11, Rue de Strassbourg | Paris.
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Glubb, P. C.] 1923. The Savile Club, 1868 to 1923. Edinburgh: privately printed.
Hesse[-Wartegg], Ernst A. von. 1874. Die Werkzeug-Maschinen zur Metall- und Holzbearbeitung nach den Ergebnissen der Wiener Weltausstellung. Leipzig: Baumgärtner.
Hesse[-Wartegg], Ernst A. von. 1875d. Der Unterseeische Tunnel zwischen England und Frankreich vom geologischen, technischen und finanziellen Standpunkte beleuchtet, etc. Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtner’s Buchhandlung.
[Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst A. von.] 1875c. Insektenfressende Pflanzen. Fremden-Blatt, 10 August 1875, pp. 11–12, and 11 August 1875, pp. 11–12.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends his review of Insectivorous plants in the Pall Mall Gazette of Vienna.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10123
- From
- Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Paris
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 193
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10123,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10123.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23