To Hermann Hoffmann 20 April [1871]1
Down. | Beckenham Kent S.E.
April 20th.
Dear Sir.
I am greatly obliged to you for your very interesting letter & for the various facts which you kindly communicate to me.—2 My daughter has a little dog who acts something like yours but is not so accomplished a hypocrite;3 he likes lying on her bed, & when he hears her coming up-stairs, jumps off & settles on his own bed but does not pretend to be asleep.—
I have also to thank you for the number of the Bot Zeitung with your very curious experiments on the influence of the period of fertilisation on sex; I hope that you will continue these observations—4 I am convinced such experimental researches as these, & those on the struggle between different kinds of weeds, are of the highest value for natural science— And how few naturalists undertake such work!
with sincere respect & thanks— I remain. Dear Sir. | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Atkins, Hedley J. B. 1974. Down, the home of the Darwins: the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons.
Hoffmann, Hermann. 1852. Pflanzenverbreitung und Pflanzenwanderung, eine botanische geographische Untersuchung. Darmstadt: G. Jonghaus.
Summary
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7702
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 145: 133
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7702,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7702.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19