From G. E. S. Boulger 20 December [1876]1
⟨ ⟩ingham. | ⟨ ⟩ding.
December 20
Sir,
Since in your recent work you state that you consider it desirable that Dr. Müller’s Befruchtung der Blumen should be translated into English, I beg to inform you that I, being much interested in the subject, am engaged in that task, but I thought it hardly a book likely to tempt a pu⟨blisher⟩ financially ⟨s⟩o I have ⟨n⟩ot yet asked the author’s sanction to its publication, doing it merely for my own use.2 You may also be interested in the fact that some years back I observed a great number of moths, belonging to a species of Sphinx, I believe, on a bed of Petunias, at dusk, in a garden near ⟨ ⟩.3
⟨I am Dear S⟩ir, Yrs. obediently | G S. Boulger
Charles Darwin Esqr. | F.R.S.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntniss des ursächlichen Zusammenhanges in der organischen Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Müller, Hermann. 1883a. The fertilisation of flowers. Translated and edited by D’Arcy W. Thompson. London: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Is engaged in translating Hermann Müller’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Has observed Sphinx moths on Petunia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10729
- From
- George Edward Simonds Boulger
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 258
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp damaged †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10729,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10729.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
