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Darwin Correspondence Project

To E. F. W. Pflüger   [after 14 April 1875]1

I am very much obliged to you for having sent me your last ms in which you attack the greatest of all problems, the theory of life.—2 I feel it a great honour, that you shd have sent me the treatise

& with very best thanks & high respect, I remain

Footnotes

The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. F. W. Pflüger, 14 April 1875.

Bibliography

Pflüger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm. 1875. Beiträge zur Lehre von der Respiration I. Über die physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen. Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Tiere 10: 251–367.

Summary

Thanks EFWP for sending him his treatise.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9931
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 97: C10
Physical description
ADraft 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9931,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9931.xml

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

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