To Wilhelm Behrens 10 November 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 10th 1879
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind & courteous note & for the present of your work on Nectaries, which I will read, but cannot do so for some time, as I must first read another book & I get on very slowly with German.—1 Your book will be particularly useful to me & my son Francis,2 as we have lately observed one little fact about nectaries & which, if it turns out true, is interesting; but we shall have to wait till next summer.
I suppose you have seen M. Bonnier’s strange book. He seems to deny that nectaries ever have been modified to insure or increase the visits of insects!3
With many thanks, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Behrens, Wilhelm Julius. 1879. Die Nectarien der Blüthen. Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen. Flora oder allgemeine botanische Zeitung 62: 2–11, 17–27, 49–54, 81–90, 113–23, 145–53, 233–47, 305–14, 369–75, 433–57.
Bonnier, Gaston. 1879a. Les nectaires: étude critique, anatomique et physiologique. Paris: G. Masson.
Summary
Thanks GWJB for work on nectaries ["Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Blüthen-Nectarien", Flora (1878): 454–60].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12305
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12305,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12305.xml
