To C. V. Naudin 8 December [1864]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dec 8
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind letter & Congratulations.2 I am very glad to possess your photograph3 I enclose one of myself made of me by one of my sons, for I have no other.4
I am particularly glad that you have given me the reference to the comptes Rendus”, for the subject referred to interests me in an especial manner, & I have obtained very few authentic facts.5
I am glad to hear that you are still working on the Cucurbitacæ;6 I have lately quoted extensively from your most interesting papers on this order, in a work which I am preparing on variation.7 I hope soon to send you a paper on Lythrum which I trust may interest you;8
with Sincere thanks & respect | I remain dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society: General index to the first twenty volumes of the Journal (Botany), and the botanical portion of the Proceedings, November 1838 to June 1886, of the Linnean Society. London: Linnean Society of London. 1888.
Naudin, Charles Victor. 1864. De l’hybridité considérée comme cause de variabilité dans les végétaux. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 59: 837–45.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks CVN for reference to the Comptes Rendus [Académie Française].
Mentions CVN’s work on Cucurbitaceae and notes that he (CD) has quoted extensively from it in Variation.
Hopes to send paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31] soon.
Mentions exchange of photographs.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4707
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Victor Naudin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.303)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4707,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4707.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12