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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 194
Summary:

Describes his university lectures on evolution and their publication in a book [Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 195
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Describes experiment on Drosera carried out with his pupils.

Describes reception of the book at the University of Zurich.

Comments on Nägeli’s concept of a "morphological species".

Expresses belief in importance of natural selection.

Mentions his forthcoming publication ["Ulothrix zonata", Jahrb. f. wiss. Bot. 10 (1876): 417–550].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 196
Summary:

Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 197
Summary:

Comments on publication of his Atlas der Botanik [1878]. Discusses possible English edition. Draws CD’s attention to plates of Drosera in Atlas. Mentions contribution offered by Hermann Müller, and support by German professors of botany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 198
Summary:

Comments on positive response to publication [of Atlas]. CD’s approval will help make an English edition possible. Rejects suggestion that CD should subscribe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port; Carolina Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 199
Summary:

Have received Movement in plants. It will interest not only botanists but zoologists and biologists.

Ten years ago AD-P encountered great opposition when he started teaching Darwinism at Zurich. Now all except old Oswald Heer call themselves Darwinists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project