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To Hermann Kindt   7 September [1864]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Sep 7

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your very kind note.2 I should have been pleased to have given permission for the translation, but my work on Orchids was translated by the late Professor Bronn & published in Stuttgard by E. Schweizerbart.3 My Monograph on the Cirripedia was originally published by the Ray Society, but can now be purchased at Hardwick’s 192 Piccadilly. It consists of 2 large Vols. with numerous plates & I believe but I am not sure that the price is £1–1–4

Pray believe me | Dear Sir yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 (Correspondence vol. 12).
Kindt had asked whether it was permitted to publish translated extracts from Orchids (Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864).
Heinrich Georg Bronn’s translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) was published by E. Schweizerbart in Stuttgart.
Living Cirripedia (1851), Living Cirripedia (1854). Robert Hardwicke was publisher to the Ray Society. The total cost of the two volumes was £2 2s. (Freeman 1977).

Bibliography

Bronn, Heinrich Georg, trans. 1862. Charles Darwin, über die Einrichtungen zur Befruchtung Britischer und ausländischer Orchideen durch Insekten und über die günstigen Erfolge der Wechselbefruchtung. (German translation of Orchids.) Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851.

Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854.

Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.

Summary

Explains that Orchids has been translated into German (Bronn trans. 1862); and that Living Cirripedia can now be purchased at Hardwicke’s, 192 Piccadilly, London.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4609G,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4609G.xml

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