To T. H. Farrer 19 September [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Sep 19.
My dear Mr Farrer
Many thanks for your kind & pleasant note & for your preliminary remarks.2
When I came to consider the size of the paper as it now stands I felt convinced that it wd be too long for the Gard. Chron—& therefore I will send it off to the Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist. with a note advising the editors to publish it.3
Of course the publication will depend on their amount of space & the interest which they may feel on the subject. If they cannot publish it, & I feel nearly surely they wd be glad to do so, I will ask them to return it to me; & thro’ me to you—
This Journal is published monthly & your paper could hardly appear until Nov 1. If published I will inform you. Your observations on Lobelia are quite correct & interesting. I remember surprizing Hooker many years ago with the case—4 Sprengel has published on Lobelia5
The best book for you is a small one of 90 pages entitled
Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen—
von.—
Fried. Hildebrand
Leipzig 1867—6
I suspect that C. K. Sprengels Das Entdeckte Geheimniss 1793. is rare—but it is an excellent book.7 I hope your observations may be published as they well deserve to be. Had they been quite new I wd have sent them to the Linn. Society.
Believe me dear Mr Farrer | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. As the length of your paper might possibly interfere with its publication I will tell the editors that they may omit the preliminary remarks about me if they so wish
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1868. On the manner of fertilization of the scarlet runner and blue lobelia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 2: 255–63.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
ML: More letters of Charles Darwin: a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. Edited by Francis Darwin and Albert Charles Seward. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1903.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Sprengel, Christian Konrad. 1793. Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen. Berlin: Friedrich Vieweg.
Summary
Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].
Suggests books on Lobelia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6379
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (LS Ms299/5)
- Physical description
- LS 5pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6379,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6379.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16