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To Williams & Norgate   12 April [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 12th

Dear Sir

Please to send me “The Higher Ministry of Nature by J. Leifchild: Hodder & Stoughton.—”2

Also please try & get the enclosed for me.—3

I think that I formerly ordered (do you keep any list? & can you see whether you have already ordered it for me) “A Review of Darwin’s Theory by James Hunter: Appleton & Co. New York.”—4 I am anxious to get this.—

Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the reference to Leifchild 1872 (see n. 2, below).
2
John Roby Leifchild’s book (Leifchild 1872) was published in March 1872 (Publishers’ circular, 16 March 1872, p. 177). Leifchild was the author of critical reviews of CD’s works in the Athenæum (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 22 July [1860] and n. 6).
3
The enclosure was an advertisement for an offprint of the article ‘The application of Darwinian theory to flowers and the insects which visit them’ (H. Müller 1871). The article appeared in the July 1871 issue of American Naturalist. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
4
CD refers to an offprint of a review of Descent by James B. Hunter that originally appeared in the Journal of Psychological Medicine (Hunter 1871). CD’s copy of the offprint is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Bibliography

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

Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.

Hunter, James B. 1871. A review of Darwin’s theory of the origin and development of man. Journal of Psychological Medicine 4: 550–66.

Leifchild, John Roby. 1872. The higher ministry of nature viewed in the light of modern science, and as an aid to advanced Christian philosophy. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Müller, Hermann. 1871. Application of the Darwinian theory to flowers and the insects which visit them. [Translated into Italian from the German with annotations by Federico Delpino. Translated from the Italian by R. L. Packard.] American Naturalist 5: 271–97.

Summary

Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);

Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];

and a review by J. B. Hunter.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8284
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Bookseller.
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.414)
Physical description
ALS 1p encl

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8284,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8284.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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