To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 27 October 1869
Down. | Beckenham | Kent.
Oct 27 1869
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged for the present of your work Die Abhangigkeit &c.1
I observe from the headings that you discuss some points of especial interest to me; & I hope soon to read the greater portion of your work.2
Your previous essays have done excellent service to the cause which we both advocate; but I am so poor a German scholar, that I have as yet read only a part of 2 of your former essays which I possess.3 I see that you have honoured me by prefixing to yr present book a quotation from my Origin of species.4
With my best thanks & the most sincere respect, I remain | dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Kerner, Anton. 1864. Die Cultur der Alpenpflanzen. Innsbruck: Wagner’schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung.
Kerner, Anton. 1866. Gute und schlechte Arten. Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift 16: 71–6.
Kerner, Anton. 1869. Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzengestalt von Klima und Boden. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Entstehung und Verbreitung der Arten, gestützt auf die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse, geographische Verbreitung und Geschichte der Cytisusarten aus dem Stamme Tubocytisus D. C. Innsbruck: Wagner’schen Universitæts-Buchhandlung.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Rembold, Otto and Barth, Ludwig von, eds. 1869. Festschrift zu Ehren der 43 Versammlung der Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte zu Innsbruck 1869. Innsbruck: Wagner’schen Universitæts-Buchhandlung.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzengestalt von Klima und Boden (Kerner 1869).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6957F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Anton Kerner von Marilaun
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-1)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
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