Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
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Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
No significant reviews of Erasmus Darwin have appeared yet in Germany.
Sends response from a theological opponent.
Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.
Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.
Has sent 2d ed. of his book, Werden und Vergehen [1880]. Notes that book was attacked in Prussian House of Deputies by ultramontane critics of Hermann Müller who had recommended it to his pupils.
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants. It will be reviewed in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 258–71] by Hermann Müller.
Kosmos will probably cease publication. Publisher has decided to sell.
Fritz Müller has suffered from flood.
Müller’s latest letter contains a polemic against Wagner’s migration theory,
and some interesting observations on Crustacea.
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Would like to reply to Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory [1880] in Kosmos.