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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
4 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
State Library of South Australia (Archival collections D 4639(L))
Summary:

Discusses possible translation of Origin into German. Could HGB advise E. Schweizerbart [Stuttgart publisher] about good translator. Suggests Bronn edit the translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library DC AL 1/7)
Summary:

Thanks HGB for agreeing to superintend translation of Origin.

Comments on HGB’s review.

Encloses corrections and preface for Schweizerbart. Discusses translation of term "natural selection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
[c. 25 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.340)
Summary:

Discusses meaning of various English scientific terms.

Is much pleased that translation [of Origin, 1st German ed.] will be ready by May.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 149
Summary:

Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].

Pleased at quickness of translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
10 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 150
Summary:

Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.

Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
13 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.207)
Summary:

Thanks HGB for sending copies of his Untersuchungen [1858] and Morphologische Studien [1858] and for a portrait.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
14 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 151
Summary:

Responds to HGB’s critique of Origin [appended to German translation of Origin]. Comments on English reviews.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.

Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.

CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.

Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.

Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.

Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 153
Summary:

Pleased that new German edition of Origin is wanted. Wishes to make corrections.

Suggests German translation of Orchids.

Comments on HGB’s book [Untersuchungen (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
25 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:

Sends additions and corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin [1862–3].

Before a German translation of Orchids is done, CD thinks HGB should read part of it and decide if it is worth while; CD has doubts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
30 June [1862]
Source of text:
Bronn trans. 1862; DAR 143: 155; Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:

Encloses answers and corrections [concerning Orchids]. Thanks HGB for translating it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:

Sends additional notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project