To Gaston de Saporta 22 December 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
December 22d. 1878
My dear Sir
I thank you cordially for sending me your beautiful work “Le Monde des Plantes”,1 which I am sure will interest me greatly, as did your “Végétation Polaire”, which I have just read, & which made so conspicuous a part in Sir J. Hooker’s address lately delivered to our Royal Society.—2
With much respect | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Saporta, Gaston de. 1879. Le monde des plantes avant l’apparition de l’homme. Paris: G. Masson.
Summary
Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].
CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11803
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11803,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11803.xml