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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

1
CD’s copy of Le monde des plantes avant l’apparition de l’homme (The world of plants before the appearance of man; Saporta 1879), is in the Darwin Library–CUL.
2
In his presidential address to the Royal Society of London (Hooker 1878b, pp. 51–4), Joseph Dalton Hooker had discussed Saporta’s work L’ancienne végétation polaire (Ancient polar vegetation; Saporta 1877b) in detail. CD’s copy of Saporta 1877b is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

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

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