From George Bentham 7 May 1869
25. Wilton Place. | S.W.
May 7 1869
My dear Mr Darwin
You will receive from Mr Kippist1 two papers read at the Linnean Society which the Council have referred to you for your report with reference to their value for publication. I am very sorry that you should be bothered when you have so much valuable work on hand but one of these is Mr Spruce’s on the vesicles inhabited by ants in Tococa etc which has already passed through your hands about which we have some doubts and are anxious for your opinion.2 We have many important papers on hand which will tax all our powers to bring out in tolerable time and are just now printing a very long one of Spruce’s on the Amazonian Palms3 at the same time I believe that Mr Spruce thinks highly of this one referred to you and we should be very sorry to reject it if really good—but we cannot afford to print what is not so. the other one on the fecundation of Duvernoya in S. Africa is very short the chief doubt is about the illustration— a coloured plate would be an expensive matter4
Yours very sincerely | George Bentham
Footnotes
Bibliography
Barber, Mary Elizabeth. 1869. On the fertilization and dissemination of Duvernoia adhatodoides. [Read 15 April 1869.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 11 (1871): 469–72.
Spruce, Richard. 1869. Palmae Amazonicae, sive enumeratio palmarum in itinere suo per regiones Americae aequatoriales lectarum. [Read 21 January 1869.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 11 (1871): 65–183.
Summary
The Linnean Society Council wants CD to review two papers, with reference to their value for publication.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6734
- From
- George Bentham
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Wilton Place, 25
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 162
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6734,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6734.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17