From Hubert Airy 21 January 1873
27. Dacre Park. Lee. | London S.E.
1873. Jan. 21.
My dear Mr. Darwin
I trust I am not acting irregularly in sending my “Phyllotaxy” to Prof. Stokes and enclosing your last letter to me by way of credentials, without first sending the bulky mass of foolscap to you for sanction.—1 I could not have asked you to go through the M.S. a second time. It has swelled to 48 close-written folio pages, and is illustrated with a full set of drawings.2
If it comes to be read, I shall be prepared to illustrate it with mechanism similar to the oak-gall-systems I showed you, but with fourpenny india-rubber balls to represent the embryo leaves.3
Thank you for offering to lend me the new edition of Sachs; but I cannot expect to have time to read it for some months, so must not put you to the inconvenience of sending it.4
Please accept my sincere thanks for your permission to put forward my paper under your auspices. I trust its public appearance will not discredit that sponsorship. | Believe me, | yours very sincerely | Hubert Airy
Charles Darwin Esqre. M.A. F.R.S. | Down, Beckenham
Footnotes
Bibliography
Airy, Hubert. 1873. On leaf-arrangement. Abstract. Communicated by Charles Darwin. [Read 27 February 1873.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 21 (1872–3): 176–9.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Has sent phyllotaxy paper to G. G. Stokes with the letter from CD to show credentials.
Will not have time to read new Sachs edition CD offered.
Thanks for CD’s sponsorship of paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1873): 176–9].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8745
- From
- Hubert Airy
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Dacre Park, 27
- Source of text
- DAR 159: 25
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8745,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8745.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21