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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Williams & Norgate   [7 February 1863 or earlier]1

Down Bromley Kent

Saturday

Dear Sir

Would it be possible to get for me the numbers for Jany. 2d & Jany. 9th of the Botanische Zeitung for present year 1863. These two numbers contain two articles of considerable importance for me, & yet it would not be worth my while to buy whole volume.—2

If you can get them, please oblige me & send them by Post.—

Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. Would you be so kind as to inform me, whether it is likely that you can obtain the two numbers. I enclose envelope for answer3

Footnotes

The date is established by the endorsement. In 1863, 13 February was a Friday; the preceding Saturday was 7 February. The date of the endorsement may be the date that Williams & Norgate sent the papers to CD rather than the date they received CD’s request. Ludolph Christian Treviranus wrote to CD that he had sent copies of his paper to Williams & Norgate to be sent on to CD in his letter of 12 February 1863 (Correspondence vol. 11).
The articles were the two parts of Treviranus’s paper, ‘Ueber dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Charles Darwin’ (On dichogamy according to C. C. Sprengel and Charles Darwin; Treviranus 1863). CD’s copy of Treviranus 1863 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL is lightly annotated.
No reply has been found.

Bibliography

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

Treviranus, Ludolph Christian. 1863a. Ueber Dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Ch. Darwin. Botanische Zeitung, 2 January 1863, pp. 1–7, 9 January 1863, pp. 9–16.

Summary

Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3897F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3897F.xml

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