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To Anton Kerner von Marilaun   24 May [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 24th

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged for the kind present of your “Die Schutzmittel &c &c” & for several pamphlets; the latter received this day.—2 Everything which you write interests me, & I am particularly glad to receive the first work, as it relates to a subject which I am now investigating.3 I have not yet begun to read it, but shall do so in a week or two’ time.

With sincere thanks & respect, I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the reference to Kerner 1873a (see n. 2, below); see Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873].
2
There is a copy of Kerner von Marilaun’s paper ‘Die Schutzmittel des Pollens gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Dislocation und gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Befeuchtung’ (Preventive measures of pollen against damage by premature dislocation and moistening; Kerner 1873a) in DAR 136: 14; the other papers are probably those in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (Kerner 1871a, 1871b, 1871c, 1873b).
3
CD cited Kerner 1873a in Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 376, 412, 376, 390.

Bibliography

Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.

Kerner, Anton. 1871a. Können aus Bastarten Arten werden? Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift 21: 34–41.

Kerner, Anton. 1871b. Chronik der Pflanzenwanderungen. Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift 21: 335–40.

Kerner, Anton. 1871c. Der Einfluss der Winde auf der Verbreitung der Samen im Hochgebirge. Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins 2: 144–72.

Kerner, Anton. 1873a. Die Schutzmittel des Pollens gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Dislocation und gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Befeuchtung. Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 3: 100–68.

Kerner, Anton. 1873b. Die Schafgarben-Bastarte der Alpen. Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift 23: 73–9.

Summary

Thanks for ‘Die Schutzmittel des Pollens gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Dislocation und gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Befeuchtung’ (Preventive measures of pollen against damage by premature dislocation and moistening; Kerner 1873) and several pamphlets.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8920F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Anton Kerner von Marilaun
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-2)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8920F,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/view/letters/DCP-LETT-8920F

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)

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