From Friedrich Hildebrand 3 July 1868
Bonn
July 3d | 1868.
Dear and honoured Sir
after having received some days ago Prof. Bentham’s address to the Linn. Soc. sent by your kindness I got this morning two new papers of yours and I thank you very much for them.1 Also the first half of the second part of your work on domestication was forwarded to me from Stuttgart and I was quite astonished by the great mass of facts you have made out and the skill in ordering them.2 I feel very thankful to you to have mentioned my experiments on Corydalis and Primula so kindly; just yesterday I sent away an essay on the contrivances for fertilization in the Fumariaceae, but I fear that it will last some time before I can send you a copy.3 I enclose a specimen of Corydalis cava, that I have prepared for you this spring, perhaps you might like it as a proof of my results.—4 At the end of September I am going to live at Freiburg in Breisgau (Baden)5 were I have become professor of Botany at the University. I am very glad that I shall have now more opportunity in going on with my experiments but I fear that I shall not be able to use this opportunity in the first time, as I find that the botanical garden of Freiburg is quite in disorder. I shall wait some time before it is ordered and the obstinate gardener removed.6
Perhaps you will like to hear, that my old father,7 who has rather large estates and grounds in Pomerania has read some parts of your work on domestication with great pleasure and found a great many things proving true his observations.
Once more I give you my best thanks for sending me your papers and | remain | Dear Sir | yours | truly | Hildebrand
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bentham, George. 1868. Anniversary address. [Read 25 May 1868.] Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1867–8): lvii–c.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’: On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 10 (1869): 393–437.
‘Specific difference in Primula’: On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officinalis of Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. (var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip. With supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids in the genus Verbascum. By Charles Darwin. [Read 19 March 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 10 (1869): 437–54.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6267
- From
- Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Bonn
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 209
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp † encl
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6267,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6267.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16