To Richard Kippist 18 March [1862]1
Down
March 18th.—
My dear Sir
Will you be so good as to inform the Referee, to whom my paper may be referred, that, if it be ordered to be printed, I will endeavour to borrow from Mr Murray the two or three woodcuts, which would be almost necessary.—2 If, however, the Referee thinks fit, I will withdraw the paper, as nearly the whole will appear in my small work on the Fertilisation of Orchids.3 Or I could strike out as much as the Referee should think fit.— I am, however, not willing to spare the time to condense the whole.—
My dear Sir | Your’s sincerely | C. Darwin
R. Kippist Esq—
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum’: On the three remarkable sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum, an orchid in the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): 151–7. [Collected papers 2: 63–70.]
Summary
Asks that referee of his [Catasetum] paper be informed that if it is ordered to be printed he will borrow woodcuts. But if referee thinks fit, he will withdraw it, for almost all will be published in Orchids. He is not willing to spare time to condense it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3477
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3477,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3477.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10