To F. T. Köppen 28 April [1871]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
April 28th
Dear Sir
I am greatly indebted to you for your valuable present of your Heuschrecken in Südrussland & for your interesting letter.2 I have no doubt I shall find much matter of value to me in your volume; but unfortunately I am a poor German scholar & read the language with much difficulty, which has been an irreparable loss to me.— The facts which you mention in your letter in relation to the increase of mice &c from the invasion of the grasshoppers are very curious; & it is a subject which always possesses a special interest for me.3
With much respect & my best thanks, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Köppen, Friedrich Theodor. 1865. Ueber die Heuschrecken in Südrussland; nebst einem Anhänge über einige andere daselbst vorkommende schädliche Insekten. Horae Societatis Entomologici Rossicae 3: 81–294.
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.
Summary
Thanks for FTK’s locust paper ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7723
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 1, 1 r)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7723,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7723.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
