From J. D. Hooker 25 July 1868
Royal Gardens Kew
July 25/68
My dear Darwin
Can you tell me about how many languages the “Origin” has appeared in, & how many English, American &c editions—& any other data as to it’s reception abroad. I want a few data to disprove the statement, that the Theory is “fast passing away”.1
We are very anxious about our Infant, which has been suffering for now a week under this prevalent & fatal infantile diarrhœa— —there is scarcely a hope for its recovery.2
Ever yrs affecly | J D Hooker
Two purely Botanical descriptive books have come for you, viz. Mueller’s Fragmenta vol. V & J. A. W. Miguel’s nouveaux materaux pour servir a la conaissance des Cycadées.3
I do not see a particle in the first that could interest you The latter has some loosish observations on hermaphroditism &c.
Shall I bring either neither or both?—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. 1868–70. Nouveaux matériaux pour servir à la connaissance des cycadées. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles 3 (1868): 193–254, 403–27, 5 (1870): 74–88.
Mueller, Ferdinand. 1858–82. Fragmenta phytographiæ australiæ. 12 vols. Melbourne: Joannes Ferres.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Asks for information on how many languages Origin has appeared in, how many English and American editions it has gone through, and its reception abroad. Wants to disprove statement that the theory is "fast passing away".
Baby ill, scarcely any hope of recovery.
Some botanical books have come for CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6288
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 225–6
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6288,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6288.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
