Letter 741
Darwin, C. R. to Dieffenbach, Ernst
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[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".
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‘… I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German
Geological Journal …’
‘If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof.
Liebig’
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Date taken from the Stargardt catalogue. - +
- f2 741.f2
Dieffenbach had corresponded with the German publisher Eduard Vieweg about the possibility of producing an encyclopaedia of science, but nothing came of the project (Bell 1976, p. 117). - +
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This note, ‘If … Liebig’, was written on the cover. Dieffenbach had studied with Justus von Liebig and served as his agent in England in connection with a fertiliser enterprise (Bell 1976, pp. 18, 107–11).