From H. G. Bronn [before 11 March 1862]
Summary
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3363 |
To H. G. Bronn 11 March [1862]
Summary
Pleased that new German edition of Origin is wanted. Wishes to make corrections.
Suggests German translation of Orchids.
Comments on HGB’s book [Untersuchungen (1858)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3470 |
From H. G. Bronn 27 March 1862
Summary
CD can add revisions since he cannot begin work on 2d German ed. of Origin until May.
Schweizerbart wants to publish translation of Orchids. Asks for woodcuts for illustrations.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3487 |
To H. G. Bronn 25 April [1862]
Summary
Sends additions and corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin [1862–3].
Before a German translation of Orchids is done, CD thinks HGB should read part of it and decide if it is worth while; CD has doubts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 25 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3519 |
From H. G. Bronn 19 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.
Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.
Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3561 |
From H. G. Bronn 21 June 1862
Summary
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3619 |
To H. G. Bronn 30 June [1862]
Summary
Encloses answers and corrections [concerning Orchids]. Thanks HGB for translating it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 30 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Bronn trans. 1862; DAR 143: 155; Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3630 |
To H. G. Bronn 11 July 1862
Summary
Sends additional notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 11 July 1862 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3652 |
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Bronn, H. G. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Bronn, H. G. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |