To J. V. Carus 21 December [1875]1
Down, Beckenham | Kent
Dec 21.
My dear Sir
Be so kind as to make the enclosed correction.—
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
[Enclosure]
Climbing Plants2
p. 154. (second line of foot-note)
for P. acerifolia, read, P. sicyoides
p. 208 (Index)
for Passiflora acerifolia read Passiflora sicyoides.—
Professor Asa Gray writes to me that he made a mistake about the name of species.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Climbing plants: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865.
Summary
Encloses a correction [for Climbing plants, 2d ed.]. Asa Gray made a mistake in name of species of Passiflora.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10313
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Julius Victor Carus
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Kotte Autographs (dealers) (2012) (letter); Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 70) (copy of letter and original of enclosure)
- Physical description
- C 1p, encl Amem 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10313,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10313.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
