From T. L. Brunton 26 April [1879]1
50, Welbeck Street, | Cavendish Square, W.
April 26th.
My dear Sir
I regret that I have not paid as much attention to the Zoonomia as the work certainly deserves and that I cannot at present give the information you wish2 I think I may learn something within the next few days. As it is for a German work you may be interested to notice that Dr. Darwin seemed to be acquainted with the discovery made by Rosenthal in 1872 of the paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat.3 I send a copy of the British Medical Journal containing an article I wrote on Rosenthals discovery. When you have finished with it I should like it back as I have no other copy. I should mention however that the passage in Zoonomia to which I refer is not perfectly clear.4
Yours very truly | T Lauder Brunton
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, Erasmus. 1794–6. Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. 2 vols. London: J. Johnson.
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Krause, Ernst. 1879a. Erasmus Darwin, der Großvater und Vorkämpfer Charles Darwin’s: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 397–424.
Rosenthal, Isidor. 1872. Zur Kenntniss der Wärmeregulirung bei den warmblütigen Thieren. Erlangen: Eduard Besold.
Summary
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12014
- From
- Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Welbeck St, 50
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 183
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12014,” accessed on 26 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12014.xml