To Édouard Heckel 19 February 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb 19. 1877
Dear Sir
An error of considerable importance has just been detected in my ‘Cross & Self-Fertilisation’ arising from an unfortunate misprint.—
P. 275 line 6 from top of page instead of ‘self-fertilised’ read ‘crossed’1
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Heckel, Édouard, trans. 1877. Des effets de la fécondation croisée et de la fécondation directe dans le règne végétal. By Charles Darwin. (French translation of Cross and self fertilisation.) Paris: C. Reinwald.
Summary
Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10852F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10852F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
