To Eduard Strasburger 9 December [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Dec. 9th—
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for kindly sending me your new book. The amount of work, & work of extreme difficulty as is obvious from the Plates alone, which you effect is truly astonishing.2
With much respect | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the publication date of Strasburger 1876b.
The second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b) contained eight pages of plates. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. Strasburger sent the French translation of the first edition (Strasburger 1876a) earlier in the year; see letter to E. A. Strasburger, 9 March 1876.
Summary
Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10291F
- 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 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10291F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10291F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
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