To Arthur Henfrey 17 March [1855]1
Down Farnborough Kent
March 17th
My dear Sir
Will you forgive my troubling you & give me if in your power a piece of information. In Braun’s Rejuvenescence2 p. 312 of your translation, there is a reference in note to “Godron de l’Espece et des Races”.3 I have in vain by Booksellers & others endeavoured to find out what this is, whether published separately or in some periodical. Again at p. 317 is it meant (in note) that there is extract of Hornsuch4 in the Flora of 1848; for if so I cd. then get the correct title for I have failed likewise in procuring this work. If you can give me any information by looking to the original German, I shd. be very much obliged & hope that you will kindly forgive my having troubled you.—
Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Godron, Dominique Alexandre. 1848–9. De l’espèce et des races dans les êtres organisés du monde actuel. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Nancy (1848): 182–288; De l’espèce considérée dans les êtres organisés, appartenant aux périodes géologiques qui ont précédé celle où nous vivons. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Nancy (1849): 381-420. Reprinted separately. 2 vols. Nancy. 1848–9.
Hornschuch, Christian Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen. Flora, oder allgemeine botanische Zeitung n.s. 6: 17-28, 33–44, 50–64, 66–86. [Vols. 5,6]
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1648
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Arthur Henfrey
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1648,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1648.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
