To Heinrich Georg Bronn 4 February [1860]
Summary
Discusses possible translation of Origin into German. Could HGB advise E. Schweizerbart [Stuttgart publisher] about good translator. Suggests Bronn edit the translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | State Library of South Australia (Archival collections D 4639(L)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2687 |
To H. G. Bronn 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB for agreeing to superintend translation of Origin.
Comments on HGB’s review.
Encloses corrections and preface for Schweizerbart. Discusses translation of term "natural selection".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library DC AL 1/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2698 |
To H. G. Bronn [c. 25 February 1860]
Summary
Discusses meaning of various English scientific terms.
Is much pleased that translation [of Origin, 1st German ed.] will be ready by May.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | [c. 25 Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.340) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2699 |
To H. G. Bronn 21 March [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732 |
To H. G. Bronn 10 April [1860]
Summary
Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.
Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2755 |
To H. G. Bronn 13 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB for sending copies of his Untersuchungen [1858] and Morphologische Studien [1858] and for a portrait.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 13 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2757 |
To H. G. Bronn 14 July [1860]
Summary
Responds to HGB’s critique of Origin [appended to German translation of Origin]. Comments on English reviews.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 14 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2867 |
From H. G. Bronn 13 [or 15] October 1860
Summary
Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?
Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.
Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 15] Oct 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2934 |
To H. G. Bronn 5 October [1860]
Summary
Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.
Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.
CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.
Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.
Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.
Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 5 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2940 |
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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