From A. W. Malm 26 January 1877
Göteborg. Museum of history naturelle.
26. 1. 77.
Prof Dr Charles Darwin.
Dear Friend and highly estimated College!
I have the honour herewith to send to You my printed papers; 1, On the development of the Rajæ, and, 2, on Monœcious fishes, viz. Scomber scombrus and Clupea harengus.1
I think that that last fenomen, will be of much importance for the Scientia vera. Monoecious vertebrata are now abnormals fenomena only therfore that this fenomena very seldom are to be met.2 In the prior times of the development of the earth this fenomen was everywhere ordinary, and therefor a normal character for the organisated life, the product of the inorganisated.
The fenomen by the vertebrates are a appearance of tendencity of a development backwards, or no a development in some parts of the systems of the body.
My friend at Stockholm, the coleopterolog O. J. Fåhræus, but our antagonists tell my that you have citated my paper on the devolepment of the pleuronectoides, but he hav not told my the titel on your work.3 Will You have the godness to from your own hand send my a copy! then will i be wery glad.
Your trouly | Dr A. W. Malm.
The greath Linné was a very distinguished naturalist [ :] “Darwinist”. He placed directly, the most developed wild Simiæ, in the Genus Homo!4
A book, on descendent of domesticated or cultivated plantes and animals, shortly and concisely wroten, for the larg. publicum, were of a great importance in this days. The parallelismus between the man, the cat, the horse &:cet and our most common Cerealia-plants are evident. The Cat, or ewerywhere domesticated organismus, is no more a product of a isolated “creation” at the mans idem.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.
Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné). 1766–8. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 12th edition. 3 vols. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius.
Malm, August Wilhelm. 1867. Bidrag till kännedom af Pleuronektoidernas utveckling och byggnad. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 7 (1867–8): (4th paper) 1–28.
Malm, August Wilhelm. 1876a. Bidrag till kännedom om utvecklingen af Rajæ. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 33 (no. 3): 91–102.
Malm, August Wilhelm. 1876b. Om monœcism hos fiskar. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 33 (no. 5): 67–78.
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Sends his papers [unspecified].
Linnaeus was a "Darwinist" because he placed the simians in the genus Homo.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10816
- From
- August Wilhelm Malm
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Nat. Hist. Mus., Göteborg
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 33
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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