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DCP-LETT-6958F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
[30 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 45)
Summary:

Has received a letter from Carl Vogt, expressing his readiness to translate Descent at the request of the publisher Franz Anton Ricker

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6960

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
30 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 46–47)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6961

From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 45
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8967

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Journal of the Society of Arts
Date:
[30 October 1869]
Source of text:
Journal of the Society of Arts, 17 (Nov. 5, 1869), 907
Summary:

Discusses methods of diminishing the effect of a ship's rolling and pitching on a person on a cot or chair on the ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Vogt
Date:
30 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 298–9)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6961A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
30 Oct [1869-70]
Source of text:
King Edward VI High School, Stafford
Summary:

Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria

and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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