From G. H. Darwin to William Clowes & Sons 17 July 1875
Down | Beckenham
July 17. 75
Gentlemen,
On the next sheet (& on the printed slip) you will find a complete list of all the errata hitherto discovered in the ‘Insectivorous Plants’.1 Mr. Darwin begs you to be so good as to see that the type is corrected in accordance therewith in the further reprints now to be struck off, & he particularly begs you to return him this copy of the errata as he wishes to use it for the foreign editions.
Yours faithfully | G H Darwin
Messrs. Clowes
p 172. line 18. for ‘above two-millionth of its weight’ read, ‘above two million times its weight’.
p. 173 line 3 of 2nd. column of note ⟨ ⟩ large as’ read ‘times as small as’
p 199 line 3 of small type for .0296 read .0675
p 270 last line— a of ‘ample’ has dropped out
p 287 under the figure for Dionœa read Dionæa
[* NB] This would run better
“Therefore, an object between and of the size of a sphere …”
but it is not important enough to make the change if in doing so, it would be necessary to alter the type to an inconvenient extent.2
[Enclosure]
Wm. Clowes & Sons | Stamford St. S.E.
15 JUL 75
1st Proof
ERRATA.
Page 271, line 8 from bottom, for “a little less than the one,” read “a little more than the one.”
" 301, 1st line of small type, for 2.544, read 2.540.
" 372, line 14, for 2.794, read 2.795.
" 373, line 16, for 1.69 read 1.70; and line 22, for 2.794, read 2.795.
" 375, line 22, for 5.588, read 5.590.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Errata for Insectivorous plants, 3d printing.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10074F
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- William Clowes & Sons
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 86: B21, B23, B50
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10074F,” accessed on 31 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10074F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23