From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873
6 Park Village East | N.W.
March 16th. 1873
My dear Sir
Thank you for your expression of regret about my giving up the subeditorship of “Nature”.1
Your cuts are all right. In fact I never availed myself of your kind permission to make use of those belonging to the Linnean Soc. My idea finally resolved itself into a plan for bringing out an English edition of Asa Gray’s charming little books “How Plants Grow” & “How Plants behave”; but Messrs Macmillan have not yet made the needful arrangements with Prof. Gray: & I think it now far most probable that it will never come to anything.2
Believe me | very truly yrs | Alfred W Bennett
C. Darwin Esq.
You may be interested in hearing that I am now engaged on a translation of Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik for the Clarendon Press Oxford.3 I have just contributed to the Gardeners’ Chronicle an abstract of Hildebrand’s important paper on the Fertilisation of Grasses from the Berlin Monatsbericht4
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Sachs, Julius. 1870. Lehrbuch der Botanik nach dem gegenwärtigen Stand der Wissenschaft. 2d edition. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Summary
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8811
- From
- Alfred William Bennett
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Park Village East, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 139
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8811,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8811.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21