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From E. F. W. Pflüger   14 April 1875

Bonn

14 April 1875

Sir

By the same post I have the honour of sending you my last treatise.1 I have given in it a theory of life and how it was generated in the first beginning.

Yours very respectfully | E. F. W. Pflüger | Professor of physiology at the Bonn University.

Footnotes

An offprint of Pflüger’s paper ‘Über die Physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen’ (On physiological combustion in living organisms; Pflüger 1875) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Bibliography

Pflüger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm. 1875. Beiträge zur Lehre von der Respiration I. Über die physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen. Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Tiere 10: 251–367.

Summary

Sends CD his latest treatise, in which he discusses the origin of life ["Über die Physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen", Arch. Gesammte Physiol. 10 (1875): 251–367].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9929
From
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Bonn
Source of text
DAR 97: C10
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9929,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9929.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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