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To Linnean Society   23 January [1875]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan. 23d

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note & beg you to thank the Council for their kindness. I did not know that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one; but had I known it, I shd. have thought myself to have asked the consent of the Council2

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Linnean Society, 1 January [1875].
2
CD’s work on climbing plants was first published in 1865 as a paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society (‘Climbing plants’), then as a book published in 1865 by Longman (Climbing plants); the second edition was published in November 1875 by John Murray.

Bibliography

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.

Summary

Thanks Council for their kindness; even if he had known that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one he would have asked the Council’s consent [before reprinting Climbing plants?].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9828
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Linnean Society
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Linnean Society of London
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9828,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9828.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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