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[Williams & Norgate]   16 June [1880]1

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

June 16

Dear Sir

Be so good as to endeavour to get a book or pamphlet (I know not which) by W. Hofmeister, which I see referred to under following title

“Die bis jetz bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer; Braunschweig 1845.”2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The correspondent is conjectured from the fact that Williams & Norgate usually supplied foreign books to CD. The year is established by CD’s work on earthworms around this date in 1880; see letter to A. C. Ramsay, 17 June 1880, and letter to W. E. Darwin, 18 June 1880.
2
CD’s annotated copy of Werner Hoffmeister’s Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer. Als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie (The presently known species from the family of earthworms. As the basis for a monograph of this family; Hoffmeister 1845) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL, with a separate page of notes by CD. Earthworms was published on 10 October 1881 (Freeman 1977).

Bibliography

Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

Hoffmeister, Werner. 1845. Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer. Als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie. Brunswick: Friedrich Vieweg and Son.

Summary

Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12619F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Williams & Norgate
Sent from
Down?
Source of text
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9897)
Physical description
ALS 1p photocopy

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12619F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12619F.xml

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