To Linnean Society 1 January [1875]1
Jan 1st
Gentlemen,
I hope that you will permit me to republish in a corrected form my paper on Climbing Plants which appears in the 9th vol (1865) of your Journal.2 I wish it the paper appear as a second Part to a new work, which I shall soon send to press.—3 If you grant my request, I further hope that you will be so good as to allow me to use the 13 woodblocks illustrating the paper; & in this case I request that they may be sent to Mr Murray of Albermarle St., marked as for my intended, volume,
Gentlemen | Yours obliged & obed servt | C. D.
To the Pres. & Council of | Linn— Soc.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Climbing plants: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865.
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10004
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Linnean Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 97: C12
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10004,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10004.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
