From Henry Holland 25 June [1865]1
Brook Street
June 25
My dear Charles,
I have again to thank you for your kindness, in sending me your very valuable paper on the Climbing Plants.2
It is a subject new to me except in the most common facts; & I have read with great interest the researches, by which you raise it to the character of a branch of natural science.— We shall soon have to speak of Animal & Vegetable Instincts as having community in nature & origin.
I heard, & with regret, from Erasmus,3 that you had been less well again, But I know so little of details, that I can do no more than express my earnest wish that you may be speedily relieved.
My best remembrances to Mrs Darwin.4 Ever your’s very truly | H Holland
I shall get some, (though less than usual), of sea-voyage this autumn.— first to the Orkneys with my second Son—5 then to Portugal, to see the Exhibition at Oporto.6 Crossing the B. of Biscay will give me sorrowful recollection of poor Falconer, with whom & Busk I crossed it last Autumn on our way to the Gibraltar Caves7
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 27 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Falconer, Hugh. 1868. Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer … with a biographical sketch of the author. Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison. 2 vols. London: Robert Hardwicke.
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4865
- From
- Henry Holland
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 246
- Physical description
- 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4865,” accessed on 15 January 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-4865.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13