From Raphael Meldola 31 January 1882
21, John Street, | Bedford Row. W.C.
Jan. 31/82
My dear Mr. Darwin,
Herewith I send the proof & MSS. of the Prefatory Notice which you were good enough to write for my edition of Weismann’s “Studies”.1 If on reading this preface, which you wrote some two years ago, you see any way of enlarging it, I should be most grateful & my publishers have urged me to ask you to do so, as it would considerably enhance the value of the book. So far the work has been a complete failure I hear from a financial point of view, but for this I was of course prepared.
I am very much obliged to you for the loan of Weismann’s paper on the Daphnids— I must beg leave to keep it for some time longer as I am still working at Alternation of Generations.2
Yours very truly, | R. Meldola.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Weismann, August. 1875–6. Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie. 2 vols. I. Ueber den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge; II. Ueber die letzten Ursachen der Transmutationen. 1. Die Entstehung der Zeichnung bei den Schmetterlings-Raupen, 2. Ueber den phyletischen Parallelismus bei metamorphischen Arten, 3. Ueber die Umwandlung des mexikanischen Axolotl in ein Amblystoma, 4. Ueber die mechanische Auffassung der Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Weismann, August. 1878. Ueber die Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30 (Supp.): 123–65.
Weismann, August. 1880–2. Studies in the theory of descent. Translated by Raphael Meldola. 3 parts. Part I (1880): On the seasonal dimorphism of butterflies. Part II (1881): The origin of the markings of caterpillars. On phyletic parallelism in metamorphic species. Part III (1882): The transformation of the Mexican axolotl into amblystoma. On the mechanical conception of nature. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Summary
Encloses proof of CD’s prefatory notice for RM’s translation of Weismann; hopes CD might enlarge upon it.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13652
- From
- Raphael Meldola
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, John St, 21
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 142
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13652,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13652.xml
