Has received a letter from Carl Vogt, expressing his readiness to translate Descent at the request of the publisher Franz Anton Ricker
Has received a letter from Carl Vogt, expressing his readiness to translate Descent at the request of the publisher Franz Anton Ricker
Thanks for proposal about translation [of Descent]. Will write to J. V. Carus to make agreement with publisher.
Hopes JVC’s holding CD’s views only secondary cause of loss of professorship.
Carl Vogt has written that JVC is no longer a professor at Leipzig. Since this circumstance would provide more time to JVC for translation, Vogt withdraws his offer to translate [Descent]. CD asks JVC to accept the right to translate and to negotiate for best terms with whatever publisher he chooses.
Sends copy of C. J. Dub [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Organismen (1870)].
Asks about appearance of CD’s next book.
Comments on the Duke of Argyll’s Primeval man [1869].
New [4th] German edition of Origin to appear soon.
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
Discusses methods of diminishing the effect of a ship's rolling and pitching on a person on a cot or chair on the ship.