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Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   2 January 1878

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 2. 1878

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your note & the specimen. The facts are new to me, & will be of use whenever I have to bring out a new edit of my ‘Forms of Flowers’1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Forms of flowers was published in July 1877 (Correspondence vol. 25, Appendix II). The second edition was published in 1880. The correspondent, note, and specimen have not been identified.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.

Summary

Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11308A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11308A,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11308A.xml

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