From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 61
Summary:
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.
CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.
Sends a corrected revise to replace a sheet which has been lost in the mail.
Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].
Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".
Concerning German translation of Variation. Fears chapter 27 Pangenesis is very wild, but believes physiologists will some day be compelled to admit some such doctrine.
Asks CD for exact title of Variation for German advertisement.