To Auguste Forel 28 September [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sept. 28th
Dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for your magnificent present of your great work on the ants of Switzerland,2—a work worthy of the country of P. Huber.3 I will soon read it, & I am sure it will interest me greatly, for I have always felt the most lively curiosity about these insects, the most wonderful in the world.— If you can read English, I would advise you to read Mr. Belt’s “The Naturalist in Nicaragua” (1874): it contains much most curious matter about ants.4
With much respect & my thanks | I remain Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. I have opened my note to thank you for your extremely kind letter just received, which has given me much pleasure. It was very good of you to point out the more interesting passages, but I shall certainly look through the whole work.5
C.D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Forel, Auguste. 1874. Les fourmis de la Suisse. Zurich: Zurcher & Furrer. [Neue Denkschriften allgemeinen schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften / Nouveaux mémoires de la Société helvétique des sciences vol. 26.]
Summary
Thanks AHF for his book on ants of Switzerland;
recommends reading Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9661
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:792)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9661,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9661.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22