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Darwin Correspondence Project

To John Murray   [24 September – 31 October 1867]1

Index for Mr Darwin’s work on the Variation of animals & Plants under Domestication.2

The names of all animals & plants to be given in Index. The names of all the authors, with very brief statement of subject– There need not be very copious references to the subjects discussed, as the Heading of Chapters show this. But when the same subject is alluded to in several places; it is highly advisable that it shd be given in Index. Thus I remember that [Peloric] flowers or [Pelorism] is referred to in 3 or 4 places. My Book certainly requires a good index in an eminent degree.

Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The date range is established by the relationship between this letter, and the letters from John Murray, 23 September [1867] and 1 November 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
The index for Variation was prepared by William Sweetland Dallas (see Correspondence vol. 15).

Summary

Instructions for the index to Variation

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-5633F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Murray
Source of text
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (2006)
Physical description
ALS

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5633F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5633F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)

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