From J. V. Carus 16 October 1867
39, Elsterstrasse, | Leipzig.
Oct. 16. 1867
My dear Sir,
On page 308 you mention the “mattee” as a plant including coffïne. I suppose it is the “arvore do mate”, Ilex paraguariensis.1
In the table on p 286 you give as the weight of the Call-duck (from Mr. Fox) 717 grains and 713 (below). I suppose the latter figure is a misprint; for this number used for calculating gives rather more than 130 in the last column (1000:130), while 717 gives 128, 5, that is almost 129.2
The sheet you kindly sent me I have received in time. Now there are still wanting pp. 337–411. Will I get them soon?3
I am, as you may believe me, really anxious to be able to read the second volume, you may trust it doesn’t give me much trouble to translate it. I learn so very much by it and I am thoroughly thankful to you for the way in which you here teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature. May I venture to ask you to send me (if you can in any way spare it) a copy of the work when it is out? I shall always prefer to read the original, besides the treat of having a neat copy in my library, which is rather a pet of mine.
Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Prof J. Victor Carus
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].
Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5650
- From
- Julius Victor Carus
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leipzig
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 63
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15