To Ludwig Rütimeyer 4 May [1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 4
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your never failing kindness in sending me so many of your works, which I have long esteemed as of the highest value.2 I am now correcting the proof sheets of a work on the variation of domestic animals & plants, & in this I have a short chapter on pigs, cattle &c; it contains no original matter & is compiled largely from your works; but this chapter has now been printed, & therefore I shall not be able to improve it from any facts contained in the second part of your work on cattle which I have just received.3
Prof. Victor Carus is going to translate my book into German & I will send you a copy when it is published, which I suppose will be towards the close of this year; but I fear there will not be much in it that will interest you.4
With my sincere thanks | believe me my dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Calendar: A calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994.
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.
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Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1861. Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten in der Schweiz. Untersuchungen über die Geschichte der wilden und der Haus-Säugethiere von Mittel-Europa. Basel, Switzerland: Bahnmaier’s Buchhandlung (C. Detloff).
Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1862. Eocaene Säugethiere aus dem Gebiet des Schweizerischen Jura. Neue Denkschriften der allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften 19: 1–98.
Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1863. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen Pferde und zu einer vergleichenden Odontographie der Hufthiere im Allgemeinen. Basel, Switzerland: Schweighauserische Buchdruckerei.
Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1866. Über Art und Raçe des zahmen europäischen Rindes. Archiv für Anthropologie 1: 217–50.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks LR for sending his works.
Correcting proofs of Variation.
Chapter on pigs and cattle derived mostly from LR’s work.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5527
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 4)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5527,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5527.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15