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To C. F. Claus1   2 May 1876

Down, Beckenham, Kent. [6 Queen Anne Street, London]

Mai 2, 1876

Mein werther Herr!

Ihr Wunsch, mir Ihr großes Werk über Crustaceen zu widmen, ist für mich eine sehr große Ehre, und ich danke Ihnen hierfür aufrichtig aus dem Grunde meines Herzens.2 Ich wünsche Ihnen Glück, daß Ihre so lange fortgesetzte Arbeit nun nahezu vollendet ist, und es kann über den hohen Werth Ihres Werkes über diese interessanteste aller Classen des Thierreiches kein Zweifel obwalten.

Nochmals für die mir zugedachte Ehre und für Ihr höchst freundliches Schreiben dankend,3 verbleibe ich hochachtungsvoll, mein werther Herr, Ihr Ergebenster | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
For a translation of this letter, see Appendix I.
2
Claus’s book, Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876), is in the Darwin Library–Down; the work is dedicated to CD ‘with heartfelt respect’. The book brought together research that Claus had published over two decades.
3
Claus’s letter has not been found.

Translation

To C. F. Claus1   2 May 1876

Down, Beckenham, Kent.

May 2, 1876

Dear Sir!

Your wish to dedicate your great work on Crustacea to me is a very great honour, and I thank you for it sincerely from the bottom of my heart.2 I wish you good fortune, now that your long continued work is nearly completed, and no doubt can prevail about the great value of your work on this most interesting of all the classes of the animal kingdom.

Thanking you again for the honour bestowed on me and for you most kind letter,3 I remain, respectfully, dear Sir, your most devoted | Charles Darwin.

Footnotes

1
For a transcription of this letter in its original German, see p. 145.
2
Claus’s book, Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876), is in the Darwin Library–Down; the work is dedicated to CD ‘with heartfelt respect’. The book brought together research that Claus had published over two decades.
3
Claus’s letter has not been found.

Summary

Thanks CC for dedication [of his Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems (1876)]. Congratulates CC on completion of work.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10492
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Carl Friedrich Claus
Sent from
London, Queen Anne St, 6
Source of text
Wiener Neue Freie Presse, 22 April 1882, p. 2
Physical description
(German trans)

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10492,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10492.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24

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