To Eduard Strasburger 8 August 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
August 8th 1880
Dear Sir
I thank you cordially for your extreme kindness in having sent me your grand work on the formation & division of cells.1 I never saw anything so beautiful as the Plates, & with what wonderful profusion your work is illustrated!—
With much respect, I remain, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Strasburger, Eduard. 1876a. Sur la formation et la division des cellules. Revised and corrected edition, translated from the German by Jean-Jacques Kickx. Jena: Herman Dabis. London: Williams et Norgate. Paris: F. Savy.
Strasburger, Eduard. 1876b. Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung. 2d edition. Jena: Hermann Dabis.
Strasburger, Eduard. 1880. Zellbildung und Zelltheilung. 3d edition. Jena: Gustav Fischer.
Summary
Thanks for his book on the formation and division of cells.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12683F
- 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. 12683F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12683F.xml
